Example sentences of "die [det] year " in BNC.

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1 A detailed study revealed that in Britain approximately 1,600 accidents caused by dogs result in human injury , with about 17 people dying each year as a direct consequence of such incidents .
2 In fact UNICEF estimates that preventing seven million babies dying each year will lead to the prevention of between 12 and 20 million births by the end of the century .
3 Indeed the Lucas workers were alarmed to learn that whilst they were facing structural unemployment 3000 people were dying each year for want of a lightweight portable dialysis machine which uses carbon filters and a small microprocessor for patient monitoring .
4 At least one-third of patients on the waiting list die each year because of this shortage .
5 In addition to the several hundred harbour porpoises which die each year in the set-net fishery in Canada and the north-eastern US , as many as a thousand more are dying in set-nets in the North Sea and Greenland .
6 More than 8,000 babies die each year in Britain because of their parents ' tobacco smoking habit , says a recent report published by the Association for Nonsmokers ' Rights ( ANSR ) .
7 Discussing infectious diseases on an international scale , Rogers ( 1987 ) quotes the UNICEF State of the World 's Children Report ( 1987 ) which indicates that 3.5 million children under the age of 5 die each year from preventable childhood diseases and a further 3.5 million are disabled , mainly in the developing world .
8 A handful of people die each year from mistakenly eating poisonous fungi
9 Among the millions who die each year through malnutrition there are many children of the Kingdom .
10 As a result , between five and ten million people die each year from this debilitating and potentially fatal symptom .
11 About 160 people in England and Wales die each year from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol , although this official figure may underestimate the true annual mortality as many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ' distress .
12 ‘ By conservative estimates , 2.5 million people around the world die each year from smoking cigarettes .
13 Around the world , more than ten million infants die each year , and an additional four and a half million from the same birth cohort will die as a toddler or young child before reaching the age of five years .
14 About 40 to 60 die each year .
15 An average of 20 people die each year from their stings , around half due to allergic shock , the others asphyxiation after being stung in the mouth or throat .
16 Over 18 000 people die each year in the UK from colorectal cancer .
17 According to the report , twenty thousand exotic birds die each year while being imported to Britain .
18 Nearly 1,000 children die each year from accidents in the home which are avoidable and every single child will encounter some kind of accident before the age of fifteen .
19 die each year !
20 His father had died that year .
21 Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages .
22 My father and mother had died some years before and I lived with my brother Rabah , my sister Rabiha , my wife Sulafa and my baby son .
23 Cearl had probably died some years earlier .
24 The association has had calls from hundreds of sufferers after a report that 17 people on human insulin have died this year .
25 I was accepted as part of the family , which consisted of two daughters and a grandfather , ; the husband had died many years before .
26 The only other person in the bar was an old inhabitant of Cobham and during our conversation I mentioned that my beat-grandfather once lived in Cobham but had died many years before I was born .
27 Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home .
28 On 7 April Irwin was writing to the Secretary of State that the Mahatma 's health was poor and that his horoscope had predicted he would die that year , which would be , he said , ‘ a very happy solution ’ .
29 But it is unlikely to be an accurate assessment , because shot and mortally wounded whales , unlike harpooned ones , can escape and die without being retrieved and , of course , are not counted against the quota — in fact as many as 1000 narwhals may die each year at the hands of Canadian hunters .
30 No one can deny that millions are made to suffer and die each year in laboratories all over the world .
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