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1 Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays .
2 At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week .
3 ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’
4 Senior officers have an exclusive say for thirty-six hours and thereafter an influential say before magistrates on how long a suspect should be kept in custody .
5 Platt provided the perfect answer when he completed his first hat-trick after 67 minutes and soon the energetic Palmer notched a fourth .
6 Platt completed his hat-trick after 67 minutes and soon the energetic Carlton Palmer notched a fourth .
7 And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot .
8 The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret
9 As expected , having had both a spell of registered unemployment in the last 12 months and also no full time job in the last 12 months contributes adversely to the individual 's chances of obtaining an offer .
10 For example , you begin to ask yourself what would you see as important to accomplish in the next six months , the next 12 months and maybe the next couple of years .
11 They were particularly vulnerable during their first 12 months and about a third of them did not live to reach the age of 10 .
12 Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave .
13 Just over a week later his forces marched on Aachen ( Aix-la-Chapelle ) which fell on 12 July and there the archbishop of Cologne , Adolf , anointed and crowned Otto .
14 His second reputation as one of the 20th century 's most important poets was achieved gradually over 30 years and nearly a thousand poems .
15 in the past 12 years and also the whole issue of the quality of the education service provided .
16 During speed changes the supply voltage may decrease front 40 V to 30 V and therefore the phase current reduces from 4 A to 3 A. For simplicity assume a linear voltage decay , so the average current and the rate of change of voltage with time is if the capacitor value is The periods of constant speed operation are in duration and about 5 time constants are required for the capacitor to re-charge : The maximum charging current occurs immediately after the transistor switch is opened .
17 However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series .
18 • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every
19 We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training .
20 My local electronics dealer tells me he is confident that there will be GPS under £1,000 within six months and then the real price war will begin as the manufacturer battle it out for the lucrative yacht market .
21 So I plugged in Marshall 's JMP-1 preamp and instantly the Utopia 's sound crossed over the water , reinforcing my point about the preamp being the life and soul of any rack .
22 For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation .
23 FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity .
24 In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years .
25 First , he was entitled to only six films and secondly the hire of them was not ‘ absolutely free ’ because he had to pay postage and packing .
26 Analyst Dale Kutnick confirmed Legent 's vision , talking of the eventual need for 100 MIPS performance on the desktop , through a combination of user interface , network connections , five to six applications and then the hooks into a shared operating system to help facilitate management .
27 A slight check forward followed , allowing the airspeed to increase to around 45 knots and then the climb commenced at around 300 to 400 ft/min .
28 Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper .
29 Should not get away with six windows and then the small word from two hundred
30 Linotype took an early gamble and produced a RIP for their 100 system and then the 300 .
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