Example sentences of "the [noun] of deaths " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of deaths from lung cancer happen to smokers ; smoking causes heart disease , bronchitis and emphysema ; many more suffer years of debilitating illness that would certainly kill them if some other cause of death — crossing the road to go to the tobacconist first , perhaps — did not intervene . |
| 2 | McKenna , recognising the species specific nature of the sudden infant death syndrome and the relatively narrow time range of the majority of deaths , drew attention to both the relatively long period of physical dependence of the human infant and the ways in which caring practices vary with historical and cultural contexts . |
| 3 | For both diseases women outside the screening programme account for the majority of deaths . |
| 4 | In England and Wales those aged 65 + represent the majority of deaths from all forms of heart disease and strokes . |
| 5 | The majority of deaths were , according to monitoring groups , related to vigilante action in Natal and the Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging ( PWV ) region of the Transvaal . |
| 6 | The majority of deaths result from deliberate shooting or trapping , while others are due to poisons such as strychnine , laid for crows and foxes . |
| 7 | 2.3 In the case of deaths occurring before 1 January 1983 , damages recoverable under the 1934 Act include damages for pain and suffering and loss sustained by the deceased before his death , damages for loss of expectation of life , damages for loss of future earnings during the " lost years " and funeral expenses . |
| 8 | 2.4 In the case of deaths occurring on or after 1 January 1983 the right to damages for loss of expectation of life is abolished by s1 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 . |
| 9 | It follows that damages recoverable by the estate under the 1934 Act in the case of deaths occurring on or after that date are limited to financial loss suffered before his death , to damages for pain and suffering sustained by the deceased before his death and to funeral expenses . |
| 10 | A NEW road safety initiative aimed at reducing the toll of deaths and injuries to children has been launched in Cheshire . |
| 11 | Some of the documentaries screening are A PLACE OF RAGE , a portrait of two inspirational African-American women Angela Davies and June Jordan , and MYSTERIES OF JULY an elegaic investigation into the issue of deaths at the hands of the police . |
| 12 | Population attributable risks , not adjusted for other factors , estimate the proportion of deaths explained by exposure to the risk factor , and the relative attributable risks estimate the percentage of the excess risk in Maori , compared with non-Maori , which could be attributed to a higher exposure to the risk factor in Maori children . |
| 13 | This eighteenth-century controversy may be insoluble as it is so difficult to determine the extent of rural inoculation , and the proportion of deaths attributable to smallpox in country areas . |
| 14 | With increasing age the percentage of deaths attributable to heart disease and cancer decreases , while that for cerebrovascular disease ( stroke ) and respiratory diseases increases ( Figure 3.2 ) . |
| 15 | In 1854 , Dr John Snow and William Farr assembled demographic statistics on the distribution of deaths from the new vital registration system to demonstrate beyond doubt , and contrary to received opinion , that the disease was water-borne and came from specific sources ( Lewes 1983 ) . |
| 16 | The distribution of deaths in this group among the four categories was similar to the distribution of all perinatal deaths in the study . |
| 17 | Fourteen per cent of the sample of deaths occurred in such homes ; this compares with a much lower proportion , 5 per cent in 1969 ( Cartwright et al . , |
| 18 | ( In an extreme case we might have a fairly constant number of 0-year-old children ( say 5000 ) in some population , yet averaging 100 deaths each week in the 0–1 age group , so that the ratio of deaths to mean population over a year exceeds 1.01 ) . |
| 19 | It 's the latest in a series of grim , hard-hitting ads that have helped to cut by more than half the tally of deaths in accidents involving drunken drivers . |
| 20 | Differences in the rate of deaths from heart disease were also small . |
| 21 | And the rate of deaths , the number per one thousand live births , has also dropped over the same period , from 2.30 in 1988 to 1.44 in 1991 . |
| 22 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the rates except when the subset of deaths due to immaturity was adjusted for birth weight . |
| 23 | Do you think it reduces the incidence of deaths at one year by affecting ischaemic or arrhythmic death ? |
| 24 | In 1982 , the total of deaths in alcohol-related road accidents stood at 1,670 . |
| 25 | Since such fatalities are frequently avoidable , each one is an indictment of corporate practices , and consequently wherever pressure can be brought to bear , either in the process of recognizing a fatal disease-causing work condition or in the enforcement practices , corporate officials will lean towards favouring those definitions and arrangements which minimize the recording of deaths as arising from occupational hazards . |
| 26 | Lichtenstein , Slovic , Fischhoff , Layman and Combs ( 1978 ) for example in a study on the judged frequency of a variety of lethal events found that the frequency of deaths from road accidents was systematically underestimated in relation to other causes of death . |
| 27 | They have achieved notable publicity in some areas , such as the issues of deaths occurring in police custody and government economic strategy , but there is no possibility that they could achieve a significance equal to that of the United States congressional committees . |
| 28 | Figure 1 shows the distribution and the causes of deaths within the six weeks : exsanguination was the cause of death in 15 patients ( pure exsanguination without signs of liver failure ( five ) , terminal haemorrhage in case of profound liver failure ( 10 ) ) , hepatic failure in six and other causes in eight ( septic complications in four and unknown in the others ) . |
| 29 | Hospital discharge data were obtained from the Finnish National Agency for Welfare and Health , the causes of deaths from the Finnish State Statistics , and annual alcohol consumption from the Finnish State Alcohol Company . |
| 30 | Until the numbers of deaths each month has risen to equal or exceed the number of new diagnoses , the numbers needing care will continue to rise fast , even if the number of new cases reported in official figures is relatively constant or falling . |