1.   If you are planning a long leave, it can help to return on a gradual basis.

2.   Seemingly perfectly hit balls to the pin often roll back off the front, while shots struck long leave golfers with nasty downhill putts.

3.   The company says the firing was not performance related, but that Hamidi was dismissed after a long leave.

4.   Aides say he will go on a long leave after the inauguration, even though he just returned this week from a vacation.

5.   He immediately met the boss and asked for a long leave.

6.   The ministry also directed nine industrial sectors hiring foreign workers to dismiss the ones who ask for a long leave during Songkran and replace them with Thai workers.

7.   The entire dealing and backroom team who used to work with Leeson and had been on long leave since the collapse were reported to have had their services terminated.