He said "the bulk of deaths that have occurred in Syria, for example, have come about not because of regime bombing, but because of on-the-ground casualties".
However, the major disasters only accounted for roughly 20% of overall fatalities, with individual accidents accounting for the bulk of deaths.
Multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria now account for the bulk of deaths due to sepsis.
The emerging bell shape of the distribution of age-at-death manifests as an increasing bulk of deaths near the modal age-at-death.
In the sub-Saharan African region, though neonatal encephalopathy and birth related complications are thought to be responsible for nearly a quarter of all neonatal deaths, the bulk of neonatal deaths is thought to be due to infectious causes (sepsis) [ 1, 3, 39].
The bulk of the deaths in the NIV group occurred in those who required reintubation (21 out of 28 deaths), suggesting that the delay in reintubation in this group may account for these findings.
The bulk of the deaths, at least 64, have occurred off the coast of Virginia.
They killed around 340 people in seven states, with the bulk of the deaths in Alabama.
Even Gen. Berthold von Deimling, a German field officer who first ordered their use in World War I, found them "repulsive". Mustard gas, one of a group of 19th-century-vintage weapons known as blister agents, caused the bulk of the deaths and injuries from chemical warfare during the war.
And the bulk of these deaths would occur in Asian countries such as India and China, the researchers concluded, where households often use soot-emitting stoves and furnaces powered by wood.
