Animals that had been killed in small numbers for food were being slaughtered.
The military exists to kill people in large numbers.
It does so, they say, by being ready and willing to kill in large numbers.
You might think that American soldiers were doing terrible things, and being killed in large numbers.
Of course we knew how to kill one another, in huge numbers, if we ever went crazy enough to do so.
After the failure of the uprising, citizens were killed in large numbers.
With Gaddafi gone, civilians are no longer being killed in large numbers.
We killed them in great numbers and the few that lived have now fled.
I think someone who is killing his own people in huge numbers has lost all legitimacy.
When there was something interesting going on, people did not kill themselves in great numbers.