Sentence examples for the number of missing persons from inspiring English sources

"We have asked families who have a member missing to inform us," he said, to calculate the number of missing persons.

Earlier this year, the Buenos Aires culture minister, Darío Lopérfido, caused anger by suggesting that the number of missing persons, or desaparecidos, had been inflated by those who sought to profit from government subsidies granted to victims' families.

Usually the death toll in earthquakes emerges as a subset of the number of missing persons reported, with some of them turning up later alive and some buried in the rubble.

It will fluctuate both up and down, every day," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told reporters on Sunday, when the number of missing persons on the list dropped by more than 200.

This paper applies standard demographic methods of indirect estimation to census data from before, during, and after the Indonesian occupation to obtain a systematic estimate of the number of "missing" persons in East Timor during the 24-year period.

The number of missing persons cases in the Washington metropolitan area hasn't spiked, acting Police Chief Peter Newsham told USA Today.

Every year, the total number of missing persons might harbour a significant percentage of suicides in Australia.

One of the greatest problems is the ever-increasing number of missing persons.

My findings show a substantial number of missing persons after the first five years of Indonesian occupation, and a smaller amount during each of the subsequent decades.

By about two-thirds of the way through the book, it's clear that there are a certain number of missing persons (some presumed dead, others just lost), and a certain number of people with backgrounds unaccounted for.

"The number of missing people is undefined at the moment," she said.