Sentence examples for sterling service from inspiring English sources

They had done sterling service for 130 years.

His own sterling service and decorations for heroism in the second world war counted for nothing.

(These precious relics had, you see, already done sterling service in the French House).

The BBC confirmed her departure earlier this month, with Shennan thanking her for "many years of sterling service".

Is he the bon vivant who provided sterling service as a member of the Commission for Africa created by Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair?

Model T Fords struck out from Detroit to do sterling service in the coffee plantations of Brazil and the sheep farms of New Zealand.

But it is for more than a quarter of a century of sterling teatime service to the nation's numeracy and literacy that we should remember her.

Merchandise includes 75 pieces of McCoy pottery (from $50 to $120), a 1920's sterling tea service ($300), weathered teak garden furniture (glider, table and six chairs, for $350), Fortuny fabric and lots of furniture.

It was that moral energy, diffused through Arnold's proteges in the succeeding generation, that transformed the early Victorian ethos of sharp-elbows into a mid-century culture of sterling public service.

In September, Patrick Barlow's zany, DIY adaptation of The 39 Steps left the West End for a national tour after nine years of sterling comedic service – having got through 3,000 pairs of stockings, 38 pairs of handcuffs and 530 OS maps of Scotland.

We were young when these guys made their arguments and we wanted to believe in them, wanted to believe in a country fuelled not by dodgy financial services but by tradable goods and sterling public services, hospitals like cathedrals, schools like cities on the hill.