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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At least a lifer , Holmes.
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Effectively, their friendship had ended when Converse was discharged and Hicks became, as he thought, a lifer .
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He was like the rest of the lifers, he didn't need me any more.
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I don't know how lifers cope with it, but they do.
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IBMers are typically lifers IBMers are typically lifers.
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It must be Government policy to give the lifer some dignity.
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Sometimes it's so they can moon around and say how beautiful it all was and pretend they're still lifers there.
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Sometimes we get sent to fetch lifers to come over to our side.