Example sentences of "people died [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Three of my people died on the way ’ .
2	In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria .
3	A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks .
4	St Bartholomew 's hospital surgical manager Ian Johnson said two people died at the scene of the blast .
5	The infamous Chilean case , in May 1960 , began with an earthquake deep in the subduction zone between the Nazca and the South American Plates : scores of people died near the town of Puerto Montt .
6	Forty-three people died in the explosion , among them Isobel and Jean-Paul , who , so close to the bomb , were killed instantly .
7	There was extensive damage in the regional capital , Moyobamba , 644 km north of Lima , where an earthquake had killed over 100 people the previous year [ see p. 37474 ] ; 20 people died in the village of Nueva Cajamarca alone .
8	In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks .
9	I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’
10	The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , he had ‘ reliable and authenticated ’ information that more than 1,000 and possibly more than 2,000 people died in the attack .
11	Seven people died in the attack on the Rising Sun at Greysteel .
12	Four thousand of its 22,000 people died in the tragedy .
13	More than ten thousand people died in the town .
14	As many as 100 people died in the fighting , which was attributed to a general increase in tension ahead of the constituent assembly meeting .
15	In 1970 , for example , more than 200 000 people died in the cyclone and flooding of Bangladesh and in 1979 the hurricanes David and Frederick caused more than $3bn damage in the USA .

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