Sentence examples for before the stamp from inspiring English sources

"Investors have rushed to purchase homes before the stamp duty surcharge comes into effect.

The reason being to prompt a sale before the stamp duty hike next month (02393 277277, www.fineandcountry.com).com

"Before the Stamp Act, there is no sense of common cause among the colonies," Rabinowitz said, employing the Ken Burns-effect historical present.

Savills, the upmarket estate agent, said there was a spike in activity in its UK prime residential business before the stamp duty increase last month, but it had slowed since then in the run-up to the referendum.

Errors are often discovered quickly, even before the stamp leaves the printing plant, but some may remain unnoticed for many years.

The CTOs are stamps with neat cancellations applied before the stamps are released, and the cancels are normally in one corner to avoid obscuring much of the stamp design.

They scrutinize the drawing to ascertain whether all unnecessary cost which could be incurred are eliminated before the stamping process begins.

I'm going to be a real fashion bitch, still out from the night before with the stamp on my hand.

Jonathan Moore, director of Easyroommate.co.uk, said: "First-time buyers were struggling to raise the huge deposits needed by lenders before the end of the stamp duty holiday.

It is the extraordinary two decades of rising share prices that ran until late last year.It is worth putting the figures on record before the bears stamp out the memory altogether.

The FBI could never convincingly show how McVeigh got to the rental shop himself from a McDonald's where he was captured on surveillance tape shortly before the time stamp on the rental agreement.