Sentences with phrase «number of dead»

It happened to be in the migration path of a number of eagle species, and each year there have been very high numbers of dead or injured birds.

Though the government puts the death toll for the entire province at about 1,500, almost everyone here believes the actual number of dead is far higher.

But the sheer numbers of dead fish are reason enough for concern.

The single largest number of dead zone reports came from the Hudson Valley (970) led by 597 dead zones in Sullivan County, according to the non-scientific study.

So researchers turned to two different estimation methods — one whereby total mortalities were estimated from the actual number of dead birds recovered, and another in which information on the geographic extent of the oil slick and seabird densities were used to estimate potential mortalities.

Moderate profanities, a growing number of dead bodies and a gruesome injury inflicted by a fire poker are a few of the other content concerns parents will encounter.

Of these, 222 were described as «unusual», either because the frogs had strange lesions, or there were large numbers of dead animals in one area.

This brings the total number of dead trees since 2010 to over 102 million on 7.7 million acres of California's drought stricken forests.

Tottenham MP David Lammy, whose friend, the artist Khadija Saye, died in the fire, has repeatedly questioned the official number of dead as «far, far too low» and said that «failure to provide updates of the true number that died is feeding suspicion of a cover - up».

Officials reported this was the largest school shooting since [recent date], in which [number of dead] people were gunned down in [town].

The total number of dead were 127,000 Germans and 700,544 Soviets — that's over 800,000 killed in the battle for Kiev.

The New York State Emergency Operations Center is working to determine actual number of dead livestock.

FDA documents show that cows injected with rBGH are 79 percent more likely to contract mastitis.4 In 1991, a report on Monsanto's BGH test herd at the University of Vermont found the same kinds of problems identified by the FDA, plus an alarming number of dead and deformed calves born to cows treated with BGH.5 Other problems include reproductive difficulties, increased need for antibiotics, digestive problems, enlarged hocks and lesions, and foot problems.

«There were an enormous number of dead people.»

Courtois argued that in addition to the sheer numbers of dead — and the death toll of those killed by Communists far exceeds those murdered by the Nazis — a similarity exists between the «class genocide» preached by Lenin and Stalin and the «race genocide» of Hitler.

Muhammed said that the exact number of dead and injured people had yet to be ascertained and that villagers who escaped the attack were currently taking refuge at Gulak, the headquarters of the council.

As survivors began straggling out, the few humanitarian workers already on the ground were shocked at what they saw: millions sick and near starvation, fresh graves that hinted at an untold number of dead.

In Venezuela today, the Ministry of Health keeps a lookout for the appearance of unusual numbers of dead wild monkeys, such as howler monkeys.

«One of the least understood aspects of this process is how the excess milk and large numbers of dead cells are removed from the mammary gland without substantial activation of the immune system,» says Matthew Naylor, a cancer biologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.

People who see large numbers of dead frogs, or frogs with strange diseases, are asked to contact the FMP (Tel: [phone]).

You hear numbers of dead every day, like football results,» Johnson says.

The year 2011 stood out in that 32 specific families of bottlenose dolphins were hardest hit in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, with more deaths recorded than in previous years; Louisiana had the highest number of dead dolphins ever recorded in that state in 2010 and 2011.

Huge numbers of dead bodies are shown, some floating in water, some charred by fire, others bloody and pinned by debris — all are the result of natural disaster.

(Paragraph four of the essay) The U.S. and UK forces managed to topple the government and capture the key cities of a large nation in only 21 days, taking minimal losses while also trying to avoid large civilian deaths and even high numbers of dead Iraqi military forces.

Fewer numbers of dead heartworms mean less chance of adverse effects from the treatment.

Staggering numbers of dead and missing are reported.

After all, most zombie stories demonstrate that central governments and institutional frameworks are completely displaced when significant numbers of the dead rise and attempt to eat us, and that the state of legal frameworks will be one of anarchy.

Alarming numbers of dead and dying bottlenose dolphins are showing up on beaches from New York to Virginia, and no definitive cause has been identified yet.

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

«The questions are as follows as narrated in a national daily by a member of the committee: «What is the actual number of the dead, and when are they going to be handed over to their relatives for proper burial?

In June, Trump referred to the number of dead and wounded in a terror attack on London Bridge, and appeared to chide Khan for telling Londoners not to be alarmed.

But they should because the number of dead is infinitely greater than the lone U.S. Ebola victim and several times more than the nearly 5,000 deaths globally in the latest outbreak.

The precise figures remain elusive, but some scholars put the number of dead as high as ten million.

What would be your response if several of your neighbors took advantage of the «safer conditions in the neighborhood» and spoke out freely, only to be killed (so that in subsequent weeks the numbers of dead averaged fifteen)?

Fair play seems good until you count up the number of dead — particularly dead non-combatants.

Numbers of dead, injured, displaced etc. are trickling out of Haiti as groups there have now had two weeks to face the problem, and the statistics are staggering.

We already have a number of dead zones and fish dependent animals dying off at an alarming rate (whales, sharks, polar bears to name a few).

Evidently, there is no limit to the number of dead babies that Colorado homebirth midwives think is acceptable.

I understand Tuteor implied this here by 1) saying that the study was wrong to count when who survived morbidity instead of women who experienced morbidity and 2) making a graph with the number of dead women being comparable to the number of sick women....

The number of dead in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre is disputed, but even official figures put it at around 400.

The number of dead is continuing to climb as people overdose on heroin laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that makes heroin much more potent — and thus more deadly.

For instance, the number of dead possums on the roadside fell by 60 per cent between 1994 and 2005, thanks to a government effort to cull the animals.

«We really underestimated [the number of dead] crocodiles from last year's count,» Govender adds, noting that their bodies could have been eaten by other crocs or sunk to the bottom of the river.

This week, officials in California reported that the number of dead trees in California has soared to 25 million, the result of drought and diseases exacerbated by lack of water (Greenwire, Sept. 28).

Besides revealing whether we're alone in the universe, putting a figure on the number of dead aliens could tell us how long we've got to live.

The researchers measured toxicity using a biological assay, by counting the number of dead Daphnia — tiny crustaceans — in water containing the different ladybird toxins.

For instance, the number of dead possums on the roadside fell by 60 per cent between 1994...