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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anatoly Kvashnin, chief of the general staff , to cut spending on the nuclear arsenal.
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It had no permanent general staff .
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Its rear legs have joined the general staff , who are all in discussion with their backs towards me.
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The general staff is unhappy and the squaddies disgruntled, but no more than that.
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Three days previously he had abolished the post of chief of general staff , held by Vice-Adml.
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Valery Manilov, deputy chief of the general staff .
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Yet the general staff of overseers is small, only about 40 employees, supplemented by local officials in 94 judicial districts.