Example sentences of "than [adj] day [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Rawdon told the Committee of the whole House of Lords , which read his bill clause by clause in May , that he thought a debtor should be able to swear to the real cause of his debt and , if there was no question of fraud or any intention to abscond , he should not be held in custody for more than eight days and be discharged on filing common bail . |
| 2 | All such offers of Shares shall be made by notice in writing and every such offer shall limit a time ( not being less than twenty-one days or more than forty-two days ) within which the offer must be accepted or , in default , will be deemed to have been declined . |
| 3 | All such offers of Shares shall be made by notice in writing and every such offer shall limit a time ( not being less than twenty-one days or more than forty-two days ) within which the offer must be accepted or , in default , will be deemed to have been declined . |
| 4 | Before making such an order , the Inland Revenue must be given notice of the application of not less than twenty-eight days and if the Inland Revenue object , it must submit a written statement of the grounds and ensure that an officer of it attends court on the hearing of the application ( r 6.194 ) . |
| 5 | First , section 238(1) provides that any member , holder of the company 's debentures and any person who is entitled to receive notice of general meetings shall , not less than 21 days before the accounts are to be laid before the general meeting under section 241 , be sent copies of them . |
| 6 | Example 4:10 Tenant 's power to make time of the essence ( 1 ) if the landlord fails to take any step in the procedure for rent review within a period of time prescribed by this lease ( whether or not that step could also have been taken by the tenant ) the tenant may give the landlord written notice : ( a ) referring to the step which the landlord has failed to take ( b ) requiring the landlord to take that step within such period of not less than 21 days as may be specified in the notice and ( c ) informing the landlord that if he fails to take that step within the period specified in the notice he will be precluded thereafter from taking it and that time is of the essence of the period so specified ( 2 ) if the landlord fails to take the step specified in a notice under paragraph ( 1 ) within the time specified in that notice ( time being of the essence ) he shall thereafter be precluded from taking it |
| 7 | His department said that it only kept records of strikes lasting more than three days and involving more than 100 people . |
| 8 | He could admit that the 7 million days that allegedly were lost in one year under a Labour Government were lost under this Government , in less than three days because of unemployment . |
| 9 | If the exclusion is for a fixed period which would bring the aggregate exclusion in any term to more than five days or would involve the pupil missing a public examination , the governors or LEA may order the reinstatement of the pupil and the head teacher would be bound to comply with the direction . |
| 10 | The computer printed report should be annotated to indicate those problems which are outstanding for more than five days or which led to a Change Request . |
| 11 | They might on occasion last several days rather than one day or less , but we seldom heard of them lasting longer than two weeks or so . |
| 12 | At Wood Group we normally log incidents which result in the loss of more than one day or one shift . |
| 13 | ( a ) not less than 28 days before the change is implemented , of any change in the body 's name , registered office or principal office if different from its registered office ; |
| 14 | No planning permission was required since selling will be conducted for less than 28 days and notices erected were less than 1 metre high . |
| 15 | These are calculated for our sample of 1608 men who were unemployed longer than 28 days and did not give retirement as their reason for their pre-cohort entry job . |
| 16 | No planning permission was required since selling will be conducted for less than 28 days and notices erected were less than 1 metre high . |
| 17 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 18 | One option for holders , of course , was to leave the dollars on deposit with a US bank but this was discouraged by US banking regulations which prevented interest from being paid on deposits of less than thirty days and limited the rate payable on longer deposits to less than that obtaining elsewhere . |
| 19 | The time limits for doing so are not later than 14 days after the action appears in the Warned List in London , or the lodging of the Certificate of Readiness outside London . |
| 20 | Some amendments to the standard provision are advisable , however , and may be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) The period of grace before the forfeiture provision bites in respect of outstanding rents should be no less than 14 days and ideally 28 , though the usual compromise is 21 days . |
| 21 | Less than two days after the bombing started , he talked about America 's post-war ‘ healing ’ mission . |
| 22 | Less than two days since Paula 's death , and already her spirit was demanding the companionship of others on its journey . |
| 23 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 24 | It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found . |
| 25 | I have n't heard anything from the City Council other than two days before the scheme was to be introduced . |
| 26 | Lending to the discount houses at MLR was never for periods longer than seven days but that rate was tied to the three month Treasury bill rate . |
| 27 | the date of its incorporation ) and ends on the last day of the reference period and that subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period ‘ or on such other date not more than seven days before or after the end of that period as the directors may determine . ’ |
| 28 | County Court witness summonses can name only one witness and should be applied for not less than seven days before attendance is required . |