Time Expressions Dictation: Deadlines and Remaining Time

Listen for whether the phrase gives a deadline or a wait before something happens. By sets the latest finishing point and allows an earlier completion. In can tell you how long remains before an event, while within gives the maximum allowed period. Keep any about or just over: they make a time approximate rather than exact. A phrase with of may say when an allowed period starts. Capture that detail too, and do not replace by with on just because the same day is named.