Sentence examples for kills close to from inspiring English sources

The virus now infects 5.5m people, affects many millions more and kills close to 1,000 people every day.

Consider the case of measles, a severe respiratory infection, which still kills close to 200,000 people a year worldwide despite massive vaccination efforts.

This time it is work with the H5N1 avian flu virus, in particular a strain that is among the deadliest we face -- it kills close to 60% of its victims.

According to VG, the lawyer was clearly affected by his conversation with Breivik and said it was difficult "to give a reasonable explanation as to why someone kills close to 100 innocent people". Breivik told Lippestad that he would provide further explanation when they meet again on Sunday, the paper reported.

The government has been lambasted for its lethargic response to a pandemic that kills close to a thousand people a day.

Iraqi officials estimated that the blast killed close to 500.

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

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

Mr. Pickton still faces charges of killing 20 more women and is suspected of killing close to 50.

A large explosion in a Hama neighbourhood late on Wednesday is thought to have killed close to 70 people.

Bill Clinton used force to stop the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo but not in Rwanda, where Hutus killed close to 800,000 Tutsis.