lance-corporal love

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  • noun Alternative form of lance corporal.

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  • As for Lance himself, here's a pointer for you, friend, from a once perfectionistically competitive lance-corporal in the Soviet military: get yourself some mindful followers that won't ditch you at the first sign of imperfection, and keep up your great work with cancer.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Livewise 2010

  • As for Lance himself, here's a pointer for you, friend, from a once perfectionistically competitive lance-corporal in the Soviet military: get yourself some mindful followers that won't ditch you at the first sign of imperfection, and keep up your great work with cancer.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Livewise Ph.D. Pavel Somov 2010

  • As for Lance himself, here's a pointer for you, friend, from a once perfectionistically competitive lance-corporal in the Soviet military: get yourself some mindful followers that won't ditch you at the first sign of imperfection, and keep up your great work with cancer.

    Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Livewise 2010

  • KIA lance-corporal disappears on way home | (28/06/09) Lance-corporal So Ba Du of the Special Gorkha Squandron of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) disappeared while returning home from the squandron base in Laiza headquarters to Myitkyina in Burma's northern Kachin State on June 7, said KIA sources.

    News from Kachin State, Burma Daniel Little 2009

  • KIA lance-corporal disappears on way home | (28/06/09) Lance-corporal So Ba Du of the Special Gorkha Squandron of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) disappeared while returning home from the squandron base in Laiza headquarters to Myitkyina in Burma's northern Kachin State on June 7, said KIA sources.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • By the time a soldier reaches the age of 21 – the age at which a newly qualified teacher might start – he will be on £54.60 a day (with no student loan repayments), unless of course he has been promoted, whence as a lance-corporal he will be earning £57.10 or, as a Corporal, a minimum of £64. 48p.

    What is wrong with these gormless hacks? Richard 2006

  • Steve was in Eight and Rab in Seven–he had already been promoted to lance-corporal.

    An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008

  • On Tuesday, a lance-corporal shot Group 24 commanding officer

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Severloh, then a young lance-corporal in the German army in Normandy, aimed his rifle at the GI.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • By the kind permission of the lance-corporal, who came to see us as soon as he had got into his trousers and shirt, we took up our quarters in the

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

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