Example sentences of "[prep] oct. [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tel Aviv on Oct. 11 a Palestinian drove a stolen van into a group of soldiers waiting at a road junction , killing two and wounding 11 others . |
| 2 | On Oct. 1 a border demarcation agreement was signed with Oman , ending a long-running dispute . |
| 3 | On Oct. 27 a spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) claimed that the PKK had agreed to cease attacks on Turkey from bases inside Iraqi Kurdistan . |
| 4 | On Oct. 5 a border integration agreement was signed by the two Presidents . |
| 5 | On Oct. 18 a bomb exploded outside the Congress building in Bogotá ; another in Medellín on Oct. 24 killed five police officers and wounded 14 civilians . |
| 6 | Congress approved on Oct. 26 a defence budget for fiscal year 1991 of $288,300 million , $16,700 million less than had been authorized for the previous year [ see p. 37409 ] . |
| 7 | On Oct. 26 a letter from 12 veteran FLN leaders was made public , calling for an emergency session of the FLN congress to discuss the country 's and the FLN 's future . |
| 8 | On Oct. 14 a student , Sol In Jong , was found dead at Yonsei University in Seoul after being beaten and interrogated by other students who believed he was a police informer . |
| 9 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) approved on Oct. 13 a loan equivalent to SDR112 million ( about US$164 million ) in support of the second annual arrangement under its medium-term reform programme , partially financed through a three-year Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility agreed in September 1991 [ see p . |
| 10 | On Oct. 3 a statement issued in Abu Dhabi , one of the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , by the majority shareholders of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) , which had been closed down on July 5 , 1991 , amid allegations of massive corruption and fraud [ see p. 38355 ] , announced that they had withdrawn their support for an attempted rescue of the bank . |
| 11 | Five British soldiers were killed in Londonderry , 10 were seriously injured and about 18 residents of a nearby housing estate were treated in hospital when early on Oct. 24 a man was forced by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) to drive a van packed with explosives into an Army checkpoint , where it was blown up by remote control . |
| 12 | On Oct. 24 a group of deputies from the House of Representatives , trade union leaders and human rights activists petitioned King Hussein to release Shbeilat and Qarrash , both of whom had started a hunger strike in mid-October . |
| 13 | On Oct. 24 a list was published of 24 banks which had agreed to participate in the first level of syndication of a US$5,000 million loan to the Kuwaiti government . |
| 14 | President Corazon Aquino announced on Oct. 2 a compromise formula for the closure of the United States naval base at Subic Bay . |
| 15 | The US-based human rights group Helsinki Watch published on Oct. 2 a report on Northern Ireland , detailing " extensive human rights violations " . |
| 16 | On Oct. 2 a Cabinet reshuffle was announced , after Michel Charasse , hitherto Budget Minister , and Jean-Marie Rausch , hitherto Minister-Delegate for Commerce and Artisans , were elected to the Senate . |
| 17 | On Oct. 19 a group of lawyers formed the CNID , and on Oct. 25 a group of eminent Malians who had sent an open letter to Traoré in August , urging him to introduce reforms , set up the ADEMA . |
| 18 | On Oct. 23 a case filed in Lahore charged Bhutto with having made up to 10,000 illegal government appointments during her 20 months in office . |
| 19 | On Oct. 29 a court in Multan , Punjab , had thrown out a case brought by militant Islamic groups against a Moslem social activist Akhtar Hameed Khan who was accused of blasphemy . |
| 20 | However , on Oct. 31 a relief flotilla from Split , carrying refugees back to Dubrovnik and with Mesic also on board , was allowed to sail into the city after being searched by JNA forces . |
| 21 | The minority government formed in September under Prime Minister Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra [ see p. 39083 ] lost on Oct. 31 a vote of no confidence proposed in the National Assembly by the opposition Union of Democratic Renewal ( URD ) -Congolese Workers ' Party ( PCT ) alliance . |
| 22 | In Tripura on Oct. 12 a gun battle between police and the outlawed All-Tripura Tribal Force ( ATTF ) left 16 rebels reported dead . |
| 23 | On Oct. 19 a group of lawyers formed the CNID , and on Oct. 25 a group of eminent Malians who had sent an open letter to Traoré in August , urging him to introduce reforms , set up the ADEMA . |
| 24 | On Oct. 17 , Vukovar came under heavy attack , and on Oct. 20 a relief convoy organized by Médecins sans Frontières evacuated 109 wounded from the city . |