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1 By virtue of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 the recipient of unsolicited goods is entitled in certain circumstances to treat them as unconditional gifts after six months from receipt , or 30 days from notice to the sender , so long as the sender does not in the meantime take possession of them and the recipient does not unreasonably refuse to permit him to do so .
2 I was 300 yards from home in a restaurant and had only used my car anyway because it was pouring with rain .
3 Third , there was another British vessel , the Sir Robert Sale , which was at the eastern , narrower end of the Straits , sixty-four kilometres from Krakatoa on the twenty-sixth , and attempted to sail westwards ( towards Krakatoa ) on the twenty-seventh , but was quite unable to do so .
4 They had to operate from a precariously-held line stretching 800 kilometres from Akyab on the Bay of Bengal to Ledo at the foot of the Tibetan mountains .
5 During the epidemic of 1854 Dr Snow uncovered the following facts out of 134 deaths from cholera during the first four weeks , 115 of the fatal cases occurred in houses supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company , only 14 in that of the Lambeth Company 's houses , and the remainder in houses that got their water from pump wells or direct from the river .
6 The only sad note for the newly promoted club was the injury to their 17-year-old full-back David Mycoe , who was carried off 10 minutes from time with a suspected broken leg .
7 But they went down 10 minutes from time to a disputed penalty .
8 None of the Republic players was more likely to come into conflict with Charlton 's tactics than Liam Brady , who announced his retirement from international football after being substituted 10 minutes from half-time in a recent friendly against West Germany .
9 This unique pub is just 45 minutes from Belfast via the M2 .
10 But what it 's readers lack in numbers , they make up in intellect , for the newsy magazine goes out to BP 's elite financial wizards of many different nationalities scattered across six countries from Singapore to the USA — share-dealers boosting BP 's revenue on the world 's money markets , or making multi-million pound acquisitions and disposals .
11 ENGLAND 'S hopes of reaching the semi-finals of the world team championships remain high , despite a 3-0 drubbing from Australia in the last round-robin match here yesterday .
12 We allow 7 days from confirmation of the booking for monies to reach us by post .
13 26 Hoards from Italy in the Roman Republic .
14 There were 26 thefts from vehicles over the last week including the theft of a bag , cash , ring , jewellery and driving licence .
15 Monte is six kilometres from Funchal at an altitude of 550m .
16 It also recorded over 2,000 inquiries from employers on the centre 's computers .
17 Worthington volleyed the second three minutes from time from a Nilsson cross after a short-corner routine .
18 The time limit of three months from notification of the adjudication officer 's decision is important .
19 They have been loaned together with objects from the treasury and crypt at York and three panels from part of a biblical narrative from Lincoln Cathedral .
20 Take three scenes from life at the top in 1984 .
21 The top game in Division Three was at Willington where Spectrum entertained Consett Cougers who stole the game three seconds from time with the first basket of the game from Ian Lockey who hit an amazing three pointer from well outside the line .
22 The diagram shows the second transfer tool taking the three stitches from right to the three empty needles at the left .
23 When I moved to Cornwall to live with them first , their home was a bracing , windswept ( take your pick ! ) clifftop cottage at Widemouth Bay , three miles from Bude on the North Cornish coast .
24 The algal bloom stretches for over 600 miles from Mungindi on the Queensland border to Wilcannia , New South Wales , and is spreading southwards towards the Murray river .
25 Goeran Soerloth smashed the winner 11 minutes from time after a Ronald Koeman blunder .
26 On behalf of this group I would like to present to the Council a petition containing in excess of two thousand signatures from people throughout the metropolitan district who object to the originally reported suggestion that Metropolitan Council are proposing to make byelaws requiring that all dogs should be kept on leads at all times in all public places .
27 Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year .
28 ARMAGH 'S first photographic competition organised by the city 's arts committee attracted 170 entries from photographers across the province .
29 However , a pension of 15s 0d per week at the age of 65 , conditional on retirement ( plus an equal amount for wives ) , would probably remove 316,000 individuals from employment at an annual cost of about £20,000,000 .
30 Police officers have taken 1,500 statements from youngsters during the last year .
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