 48(b) restricts the situations quantified over to those whose temporal extension is a day, which could be a calendar day, or, more plausibly, a 24-hour period. The maximality condition can then pick out all the food eaten during such a period by the relevant cats, regardless of whether they ate just a little more than what comes in a can or much more than that. There is no pressure to keep the portions small. However, Fox &amp; Hackl (2006) have drawn attention to a class of cases where there is pressure to keep amounts small in sentences with more than n noun phrases. (49) below would be such a case: