Example sentences of "people died [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 2 | Roads toll Five people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 3 | Three of my people died on the way ’ . |
| 4 | In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria . |
| 5 | A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks . |
| 6 | The facts of the war are simple : about a dozen people died during the Serbo-Croat conflict in Croatia in 1990-91 . |
| 7 | St Bartholomew 's hospital surgical manager Ian Johnson said two people died at the scene of the blast . |
| 8 | It was almost as if the Israelis were saying ‘ if you think the Palestinians are suffering , see how more than six million of our people died at the hands of the Nazis ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Forty-three people died in the explosion , among them Isobel and Jean-Paul , who , so close to the bomb , were killed instantly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the summer of 1856 , an epidemic of cholera broke out and over 7,000 people died in the course of a few weeks . |
| 13 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Seven people died in the attack on the Rising Sun at Greysteel . |
| 16 | Four thousand of its 22,000 people died in the tragedy . |
| 17 | More than ten thousand people died in the town . |
| 18 | As many as 100 people died in the fighting , which was attributed to a general increase in tension ahead of the constituent assembly meeting . |
| 19 | At least 20 officers in personnel carriers and patrol cars took up position outside the old Billingsgate fish market , just yards from the Baltic Exchange , where three people died in the IRA bomb blast in April . |
| 20 | 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 . |