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  • Talk of giving long-service medals to Lady Thatcher and Tony Blair riles Peter Oborne, ex of the Spectator, now parked at the Daily Tel.

    Diary Hugh Muir 2010

  • In 2008, I was awarded an extended sabbatical for my long-service to Microsoft and had the opportunity to spend an extended amount of time in Cuba, Argentina and Peru, including visiting Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas.

    Tackling Microsoft's Asia Challenge 2010

  • It doesn't get lost in a sea of campaign medals, long-service decorations, or stuck behind medals for valour.

    If it ain't broke... 2008

  • It doesn't get lost in a sea of campaign medals, long-service decorations, or stuck behind medals for valour.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • He was a good specimen of the long-service soldier of those days; a not unhandsome man, with a certain undemonstrative dignity, which some might have said to be partly owing to the stiffness of his uniform about his neck, the high stock being still worn.

    A Changed Man 2006

  • Unfortunately I won't make it as I'll be otherwise engaged with my brownies in South London I've just received my 5-year long-service award.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Helen Keegan 2006

  • During a previous meeting two weeks ago, unions agreed to an increase, in gain-sharing for the lowest paid employees of 400 percent and that the company's long-service awards would be backdated to January 1.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • It doesn't get lost in a sea of campaign medals, long-service decorations, or stuck behind medals for valour.

    The wound medal 2006

  • Unfortunately I won't make it as I'll be otherwise engaged with my brownies in South London I've just received my 5-year long-service award.

    Flashmob clubbing is gonna strike Liverpool St next Wednesday Helen Keegan 2006

  • Time Inc. had paid dearly for Sunset, which had been run—as many family businesses are—at a breakeven, with the Lane family keeping on many long-service employees at a staffing level about double what comparable publishing companies had.

    Naked in the Boardroom Robin Wolaner 2005

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