This can be tiring on a long journey, and also makes it difficult to snatch a few minutes sleep every so often.

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So it would make sense, then, that we would snatch up the easiest, least complicated tax forms that we can find.

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Now SingTel seems to be about to snatch a small prize away from Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa and Singaporeans are so jubilant that they are making a big deal out of it.

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This is what made it so vital to Mr Blair to bring Alan Milburn, a former health secretary, back into the cabinet to snatch oversight of the manifesto and the election campaign from Mr Brown.

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