In all, the list of people killed now numbers about 600.
He was said to have killed a number of men, too.
There was no reason to kill large numbers of people.
Not without killing a number, and then they won't fight well for you in the next effort.
In 1801 another epidemic killed a great number of them.
But he had been careful to kill only a number of them.
"They could have easily killed a large number of passengers."
"They were clearly seeking to kill large numbers of people in a place like a shopping center."
You cannot kill large numbers of people without a claim to virtue.
There were other ways to kill large numbers of people without using nuclear bombs.