Example sentences of "in december the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December the State Council held a national planning conference at which it was announced that there would be no change in the rural household contract system , the enterprise contract system , the factory director responsibility system , the development of the private and collective sectors , local government financial autonomy , or special policies for Special Economic Zones and coastal regions . |
| 2 | Among the 50 or so booksellers and publishers attending a seminar on the new Single Market rules organised by the Börsenverein in Frankfurt in December the mood was described as ‘ agitated and despairing ’ . |
| 3 | In December the formation of a Command of the People 's Army was announced which would carry out the professional management of the defence forces ; Lt-Gen Kalman Loerincz became commander , with the government rank of State Secretary . |
| 4 | In December the king told the Washington Post that the Iraqi leader was ‘ confident , determined to do his utmost , not for himself , but for the region and its future ’ . |
| 5 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 6 | When the full institutional visit took place in December the Council found that the expectations of the preliminary visit were being fulfilled . |
| 7 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 8 | In December the government had announced the release of over 2,800 political prisoners [ see p. 38695 ] , although there had been no independent confirmation that all had been freed . |
| 9 | In December the majority of the men were back at work , with lower wages , an eight-hour day , and with a substantial minority condemned to permanent unemployment . |
| 10 | In December the Commission reported on its 1986 survey . |
| 11 | In December the crisis was such that four directors resigned , including Jim Hunt , who said life on the United board had become too risky . |
| 12 | In December the City Committee of the Belgrade Party ( which is the largest city organization of communists in Yugoslavia , with nearly a quarter of a million of members , many of whom are highly influential federal and Serbian bureaucrats ) elected as its new president Professor Radoš Smiljković , professor of political science at Belgrade University . |
| 13 | In December the Governor , Alan Scott , stated that the UK government regarded the Cayman offshore industry as properly run and that there would be no requirement for a change to the Constitution as in Montserrat and Anguilla . |
| 14 | Thereafter prices evened out around the dollars 18 level ( the " minimum " reference price for OPEC oil confirmed in November 1989-see p. 37053 ) , but in December the world market was again temporarily affected ( this time by exceptionally cold weather in North America and by the US military operation in Panama-see pp. 37112-13 ) and in the latter part of that month the Brent crude price rose to over dollars 20 . |
| 15 | In December the militancy got out of hand . |
| 16 | In December the commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces made an official visit to Port Moresby . |