Sep 16, 2022 · The form must be filled out within 10 days before the flight. Fill out the Entry Form within 10 days before your flight. What is the meaning of within in these sentences? Is it before …

There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day, or closing time of that …

Apr 29, 2015 · I would read the first as referring to a deadline, the second referring to a total accumulation of days spent. For example, "This project must be finished within 30 days" is …

Feb 21, 2016 · The most natural thing to do would be to take them in the order specified. So first go a month from today, and then go 10 days. This goes to March 30th. As a general …

Dec 25, 2018 · Would you think "the next 10 days" includes today? If not, would there be a clearer way to put it, to refer to today and the following 9 days?

Jan 5, 2016 · I often use Google hit counts as a rough measure of how valid an expression is. In the case of " no later than" vs " not later than", Google finds 25 vs 12 million hits, indicating …

I understand that you can say, "within 30 days of receiving your application", but I am seeing more and more "within 30 days after your application is received". Is the latter grammatical?

Hence, if within two working days were said on a Thursday, it would probably mean before the end of Monday. In conclusion, the expression within the next two days does not have an exact …

Dec 5, 2011 · 0 Today is Monday. Last week is strictly the period of seven days ending at midnight on Sunday and the last two weeks is strictly the period of fourteen days ending at …

Feb 3, 2012 · Within is regarded as specifying an upper limit: within two days means maybe today, maybe tomorrow, but no later than two days from now. In is sometimes regarded as …