1.   Employers usually decide within five minutes whether someone is suitable for the job.

2.   Bureaucratic procedures were to be streamlined, so that applications from companies seeking licences for exploration would be decided within a three-month period.

3.   A notable innovation was the proposal that Class A applications should be deemed granted if not decided upon within forty-two days.

4.   At first Yeltsin apparently planned to take the post himself, but within hours decided it would not be feasible in view of his poor health.

5.   Before the election, Blair said he expected to decide within two years whether to take the most pivotal step, calling a referendum on adopting the euro.

6.   Blair has said the government will decide within two years whether a referendum should be held on scrapping the pound.

7.   Both organizations filed amicus briefs in the appeal, which is expected to be decided within the next month.

8.   Buenos Aires governor Eduardo Duhalde will decide within the next week whether to accept the offer or try to fetch a better price elsewhere, he said.

9.   But he said that he intended to enforce the law and that he expected the court to decide within a week whether to impanel a grand jury.

10.   But once they start, their case could be decided within a year, including appeals.