Example sentences of "[prep] april the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , by April 15 the number of mines affected by the strike nationwide had actually risen to 163 , and at the end of April the strike was still holding in most of those mines . |
| 2 | At the beginning of April the programme for the VEC seminar was leaked to the DUC . |
| 3 | By the last week of April the task force was nearing the Falklands . |
| 4 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 5 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 6 | In April the peso was devalued from US$1.00=DR$6.28 to US$.00=DR$7.30 , but many businessmen judged this insufficient to prevent the continuing depletion of foreign exchange reserves , worsened by Balaguer 's pre-election spending on public works . |
| 7 | Nothing was resolved then , but in April the Company asked Sir Nicholas Moseley , Sir Peter Legh , Sir Urian Legh , and a Mr. Holland of Denton to investigate the charges . |
| 8 | In April the government confirmed an intensified campaign against PFLP guerrillas and the arrest of Islamic Jihad members [ see p. 37752 ] ; in May serious unrest in Palestinian camps followed the Rishon Le Zion massacre near Tel Aviv [ see p. 37443 ] ; in July the Jordanian army killed four PFLP guerrillas attempting to infiltrate from Syria ; in November Baker Al-Khawaldeh , a leading official of the militant Islamic Liberation Party , was arrested by security police . |
| 9 | In April the government had stated that more than 600 people suspected of collaboration were being detained [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 10 | In April the government landed troops in the north of Bougainville , which led to increased clashes with the BRA . |
| 11 | In February 1915 the National Union Executive refused to sanction a scheme to use the party agents to find recruits , since it " might savour of compulsion " and in April the Committee refused to debate a motion on compulsory service because of the party truce . |
| 12 | The UN Security Council had approved in April the creation of a UN Operation in Somalia ( Unosom — see also p. 38855 ) , with a 50-strong group of military observers in UN uniform , and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on June 23 announced the decision to send in this group , whose task would be to monitor a ceasefire which had been signed by the two main militias in February 1992 but never implemented . |
| 13 | In April the World Bank-sponsored Aid to Bangladesh Consortium promised US$1,800 million in soft loans and grants — far less than the US$2,500 million requested by the government — reportedly because of continuing concern over the government 's economic policies . |
| 14 | In April the World Bank cancelled a loan of US$170 million to the Indian government for the dam after an independent report condemned the lack of measures to resettle displaced people and protect the environment [ see ED 69 ] . |
| 15 | At its Bristol Conference in April the League had once again refused to become involved in the United Front . |
| 16 | In April the Accounting Standards Board proposed that provisions for future losses and reorganisation costs after an acquisition will no longer be allowed to be taken straight out of the balance sheet of the purchaser 's accounts , without passing through its profit and loss account . |
| 17 | In April the Department of Education issued a specimen paper of the new test to howls of protest from teachers who branded it ‘ horrendous ’ , ‘ unbelievable ’ and ‘ quite intimidating ’ . |
| 18 | In April the horse ambulance was called to Trechmann Weekes when Bert Leigh of New Town had both legs crushed by a wagon he was pushing . |
| 19 | According to a Royal Bank spokesman , in April the focus of the scheme could shift to mortgages or even to the life assurance products sold by the bank 's insurance subsidiary , Royal Scottish Assurance . |
| 20 | In April the garden was a jungle of bluebells , bursting from under the trees in blue tides above your ankles , but by midsummer my grandmother had it tame again , fifty yards of earth between wooden fences bearing docile rows of hollyhock and sweet peas ; an ex-army rug was spread on the shaven lawn for the children to sit on for tea outdoors . |
| 21 | In April the talk was of what few parcels there were being handled by road van with Regional Railways carrying no parcels at all . |
| 22 | In April the trade deficit widened to $8,450 million from $6,100 in March , despite record exports of $33,280 million . |
| 23 | From April the rent of new residents will be funded by the council 's community care budget . |
| 24 | From April the baseline drops to £44 , meaning about 11,500 more people will now pay contributions . |
| 25 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 26 | During April the movement of magma within the volcano was indicated by a bulge which began to develop on its northeastern flank ; by 23 April this had grown to 100 m and was expanding at a daily rate of 1.5 m . |
| 27 | By April the sense of crisis among the Six receded when it was agreed to quicken the pace towards a customs union still further . |
| 28 | From January 1991 trade between the two countries had to be paid in fully convertible currency so that by April the value of exports to the Soviet Union had fallen by almost 60 per cent compared with a year previously . |
| 29 | By April the paper itself had changed . |
| 30 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |