Sentence examples for kill close to from inspiring English sources

On the prairies of North America, it is estimated that red foxes kill close to a million wild ducks each year.

Bombing Iran's nuclear refinement facilities would kill close to three million civilians in a short span and would expose tens of millions of people in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to lethal doses of radiation.

Crashes kill close to 100,000 people a year, according to official statistics, and Western health experts say that the actual total is much higher since many deaths are not reported.

But for patients and doctors, losing another shred of privacy may be a reasonable price for reducing the medical errors that cost billions of dollars and kill close to 100,000 people each year.

But here's the reality of the situation - I, Malignant Lung Cancer, kill close to 1.5 million people per year.

Alarming studies suggesting that medical errors kill close to 100,000 hospital patients each year probably overestimate the problem, with the real total perhaps 5,000 to 15,000, researchers say.

Iraqi officials estimated that the blast killed close to 500.

An attack on police recruits in January killed close to 50 people.