Example sentences of "the [num] [noun prp] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , held talks in Tehran with President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vellayati on Sept. 10-13 , primarily on the implementation of UN Resolution 598 ending the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war [ see pp. 35600 ; 36568-70 ] , but reportedly also covering terms for the release of Western hostages still held in Lebanon . |
| 2 | The Scud-C missile , built in North Korea , was an advanced version of the Soviet-designed Scud-B missile ( used by Iraq in the 1991 Gulf war ) , and had a maximum range of about 500 km . |
| 3 | Israel , which had urged the USA to block the Dae Hung Ho , continued throughout March to deny charges that it had transferred US Patriot missile technology ( also used in the 1991 Gulf war ) to China in defiance of controls agreed with the US administration . |
| 4 | Deploying fighter aircraft for the first time since the 1991 Gulf war , with some flights north of the 36th parallel ( i.e. over the Kurdish " safe haven " area ) , the Iraqis also built up in early April their deployment of ground forces , surface-to-air missiles and radar tracking equipment directed north of the 36th parallel , apparently seeking to capitalize on US inaction over " skirmishes " with the Kurds . |
| 5 | Visiting a large London practice shortly after the end of the 1980–88 Gulf War , I was surprised to find the Middle East rather than Europe the focus of attention . |
| 6 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 7 | General Galtieri was acquitted on human rights charges but sentenced first by a military court , then , on appeal , by a civilian court on his conduct of the 1982 Falklands War . |
| 8 | It was repayment of the long-standing debt she owed the Americans from the 1982 Falklands War ) . |
| 9 | The budget of BAS , which is part of the Natural Environment Research Council , rose nearly fourfold , to £52.4 million ( US$ ; 75 million ) in 1990–91 , in the wake of the 1982 Falklands War following a decision by the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to raise Britain 's profile in the region . |
| 10 | On March 18 , the United Kingdom government for the first time gave permission for 375 relatives of Argentinian soldiers killed in the 1982 Falklands war to visit their graves on the islands . |
| 11 | They had consistently opposed relatives ' visits ( which the UK government had finally permitted in March 1991 — see p. 38096 ) to the graves of Argentinian soldiers killed in the 1982 Falklands War . |
| 12 | The United Kingdom and Argentina signed new accords on Sept. 25 substantially reducing military restrictions in the South Atlantic , imposed by the UK in the aftermath of the 1982 Falklands war . |
| 13 | On Aug. 7 it was announced that the United Arab Emirates had launched a programme to strengthen its armed forces ( which numbered 40,000 before the 1990-91 Gulf war crisis ) and replace its component of Arab and non-Arab expatriates with UAE nationals . |
| 14 | The survey showed that the main impact of the four to six million barrels of oil which were poured into the Gulf during the 1990-91 Gulf War was limited to the northern shores . |