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Jeremy Rouse
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Yes. Note that Daniel Loughran's comment to David Speyer's answer to this question states that for any solvable group $G$, there is a Galois extension $L/\mathbb{Q}$ with all decomposition groups cyclic.

It's not hard to find a concrete example. If you let $L$ be the splitting field of $x^{4} - x^{3} - 7x^{2} + 2x + 9$, then $L/\mathbb{Q}$ is an $A_{4}$ extension ramified only at $163$. (This is one of the $A_{4}$ fields from Klueners and Malle's excellent database.) There are four prime ideals, $\mathfrak{p}_{1}$, $\mathfrak{p}_{2}$, $\mathfrak{p}_{3}$ and $\mathfrak{p}_{4}$ above $163$ in $L$, and so $ef = 3$ for each such prime ideal. Therefore, the decomposition group for each such prime ideal has order $3$.

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