1 A check from the NC Department of Revenue is valid up to 6 months after the date on the check. 2  If a check date is older than 6 months, you should mail a letter along with the refund check to NC Department of Revenue, Attn: Customer Service, P O Box 1168, Raleigh, NC 27602-1168.
The definition of dire is something so bad or scary that it causes distress or terror. An example of dire the need of a homeless person in winter. Dire is defined as something that is urgent. An example of dire is the warning to evacuate immediately. dirâ²er, dirâ²est. 1  arousing terror or causing extreme distress; dreadful; terrible.  calling for quick action; urgent: a dire need.
Dire wolves inhabited the Americas, from 1.8 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago. Note that the name of the real-life animal is spelled as two words, dire wolf, but that the name in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels is consistently spelled as one word, direwolf. The large Pleistocene mammals went extinct when the last ice age ended, roughly 10,000 years ago.