The four-page questionnaire about income and assets requires six pages of instructions.
Why does a one-page document require two hundred and fifty pages of instructions?
And of course, the three pages of instructions from my proctologist on how to stop the itching.
It has added a separate line about the tax to its 2003 income tax return (along with five pages of instructions).
Thomas Gray in a 1768 letter gives over eight pages of instructions to Foulis Press about how to print his poems, but adds: "please to observe, that I am entirely unversed in the doctrine of stops, whoever therefore shall deign to correct them, will do me a friendly office".
When Dr. Swan's husband, Eric, was discharged from a rehabilitation hospital in 2011 after a brain stem stroke, she took home 29 pages of information about seven medications he had been prescribed, a 10-page report on five medical experts he needed to see post haste, and five pages of instructions about home safety.
Of course, no self-respecting tax reformer, committed to simplicity and honesty in taxation, can countenance a confusing dual-tax system in which taxpayers must, as the reform report notes, "fill out a 12-line worksheet, read eight pages of instructions and complete a 55-line form to determine whether they must pay the AMT".
She gave me three pages of instruction — a tone poem about the importance of flavor, an exhortation on the intensity of herbs and shallots.
After two pages of very concise instructions, from the choice of fish to the shaping of the quenelles on spoons, they wrote, "If by any chance your quenelle paste turns out to be too soft to poach as quenelles, it will taste every bit as good if you declare it to be a mousse".
Unfortunately, Paddington has turned over two pages of his manual and missed the instruction that he has to have an old, broken watch up his sleeve.
