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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After completing his national service in the Army, the youthful Dawson decided to go to Paris in search of literary inspiration.
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He, in turn, said it was not; he merely regarded national service as a waste of time.
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Its pages brimmed with the idealism, patriotism, and commitment to national service that Groton instilled in its young charges.
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Jehovah's Witnesses' religious beliefs precludes them from undertaking compulsory national service .
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Other young men followed, some after national service in the Soviet army, or university training.
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Predictably perhaps, he drove tanks during his 10 months' national service .
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There is as yet no national service women.