Sentences with phrase «death toll during»

Compared with the peak rate of deaths from weather - related events in the 1920s of nearly 500,000 a year, the death toll during the period 2000 - 06 averaged 19,900.

Global warming amplified death toll during 2003 European heat wave.

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We don't know the death toll for the ethnic Uighur insurgency in Xinjiang, where local officials, in the words of one government terrorism expert, «bend figures as much as during the Great Leap Forward,» nor do we know how many people are currently held in «re-education camps.»

February 12, 2009 — Makes a statement denouncing anti-Semitism a month after a scandal involving a bishop denying the death toll of Jews killed in concentration camps during World War II.

Let us abide by the rules of the road and keep the death toll as low as possible during the season!»

During a recent meeting in Amherst, many in attendance seemed startled by the death toll in their town from overdoses of heroin and prescription drugs.

A worrisome trend, undetected Still, even if the newer death toll numbers are just more accurately representing the number of women who die due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth, it's a large number that demands explanation.

The Black Plague killed one European in four during the 14th century; influenza took at least 20 million lives between 1918 and 1919; the AIDS epidemic has produced a similar death toll and is still going strong.

Toller's wife left him after their son was killed during his military service, and he has been living with despair for so long it's no longer clear, even to him, whether he's in a dark night of the soul or has passed through to the sickness unto death.

Robine, Jean - Marie; Siu Lan K. Cheung, Sophie Le Roy, Herman Van Oyen, Clare Griffiths, Jean - Pierre Michel, François Richard Herrmann (2008) Death toll exceeded 46,000 in Europe during the summer of 2003, Comptes Rendus Biologies 331 (2): 171 — 178.