Example sentences of "within a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A piece of property which is found ownerless and which , if unclaimed within a fixed period after due notice given , falls to the lord of the manor . ’ |
| 2 | If debtors are to be transferred , the purchaser should seek a warranty in the sale agreement that all the debts will be realised in full within a fixed period after completion and that none of the debts is subject to any counter-claim or is disputed . |
| 3 | All we ask is that you use the ticket within a 60-day period between January 1st , 1990 and December 31st , 1990 and that you purchase it before arriving in Thailand . |
| 4 | Mr Jack Adams , chairman of the union side , said that action would have to take place within a 28-day period from yesterday 's anouncement or it would be ruled out of order . |
| 5 | A takeover bid must be accepted within a certain period of time , namely not less than four weeks but not more than ten weeks from the date of when the offer document is made public . |
| 6 | Japan 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry announced that it will ban the capture of the turtles , and gradually reduce imports to zero " within a certain period of time " . |
| 7 | The Finance Act 1969 provided , in effect , that on the death of a beneficiary what in 1974 became capital transfer tax , and by the Finance Act 1986 inheritance tax , should be payable upon the proportion of the capital which corresponded to the proportion of the income which the deceased had received within a certain period before his death ( usually seven years ) . |
| 8 | Parents , who have no right to prevent an assessment , must be informed of the LEA 's proposal to assess the child , given the name of an officer of the LEA from whom further advice may be obtained , and notified of the right to make representations ( orally or in writing ) within a minimum period of 29 days from service of notice by the LEA . |
| 9 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 10 | However , a Contracting State is entitled to declare that an application must be filed within a stated period from the date of entry of the judgment , a period which must not be less than one year . |
| 11 | Emphasizing the failure of the courts to resolve civil disputes within a reasonable period of time , Kidder argues that the fault lay with the structure of typical disputes in India . |
| 12 | 4.3.4 The Lead Organization undertakes to submit the claims for the agreed payment periods of the Non-academic Parties in consolidated form to the Secretary of State within a reasonable period of their receipt . |
| 13 | 14.2 Should the Proprietor be unable or unwilling to produce a sequel work within a reasonable period of time the Publisher shall be at liberty to commission a sequel from a third party . |
| 14 | The draftsman of the precedent suggests the substitution of : within a reasonable period for 2 months which seems a fair compromise . |
| 15 | Within a reasonable period after the end of the year covered by the accounts , those accounts may have a dominant role . |
| 16 | Liability of an effective supplier is envisaged under s2(3) as follows : ( 3 ) Subject , as aforesaid , where any damage is caused wholly or partly by a defect in a product , any person who supplied the product ( whether to the person who suffered the damage , to the producer of any product in which the product in question is comprised or to any other person ) shall be liable for the damage if ( a ) the person who suffered the damage requests the supplier to identify one or more of the persons ( whether still in existence or not ) to whom subsection ( 2 ) above applies in relation to the product ; ( b ) that request is made within a reasonable period after the damage occurs and at a time when it is not reasonably practicable for the person making the request to identify all those persons ; and ( c ) the supplier fails , within a reasonable period after receiving the request , either to comply with the request or to identify the person who supplied the product to him . |
| 17 | Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration . |
| 18 | The Commission , however , has wide power to obtain information from the parties by making a formal request to supply information and/or documents within a specified period of time . |
| 19 | I would propose the following : a French undertaking for Vietnamese independence within a specified period of five , ten , twenty , or thirty years … |
| 20 | Such land may be zoned for immediate development or for development within a specified period of five or more years . |
| 21 | The charge was to be levied ‘ for failure to complete development within a specified period from the grant of planning permission ’ . |
| 22 | Some firms insist that leavers repay their disturbance allowances if they leave their company within a specified period after the move . |
| 23 | As a result it is common in mandatory transfer notice provisions to see " good and bad leader " provisions , so that management who " walk out " within a specified period after completion are penalised by receiving an amount equal to the lower of market value or the amount they initially subscribed . |
| 24 | Depending on the efficiency of the staff of the accounts department the cost accounts for the previous month should be available to management within a maximum period of a further seven days , making a total maximum delay of 21 days . |
| 25 | If the publisher has failed to exploit the song in any manner , within a given period of time , the songwriter is able to have all rights in the songs returned . |
| 26 | Figure 4 Daily counting chart to show how often a child does something within a given period of time Source : M. Herbert , Behavioural Treatment of Children with Problems ( London : Academic Press , 1987 ) |
| 27 | A major subject of discussion within GATT in 1989 was the application of the so-called " Super-301 " procedure under the US 1988 Trade Act , providing for retaliatory unilateral sanctions against countries which themselves applied allegedly unfair trade practices against US goods and services , unless those countries modified their own practices within a given period of time . |
| 28 | Any limitation on the suspension of rent should be resisted unless there is included in the lease a clause allowing surrender where the premises are not reinstated within a given period of time . |
| 29 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 30 | Traded options can be used to secure a predetermined price for a security within a given period in the anticipation of a certain cash inflow . |