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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this brings out that teachers in higher education teach partly on sufferance .
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Criticism was allowed in certain territories at certain times, but only on sufferance .
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He was here on sufferance as coach driver and odd jobber.
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He was there on sufferance and most likely on trial and he knew that.
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Survey ships were carried on the Navy List, but Navy personnel remained aboard on sufferance only.