1.   Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.

2.   The team have had a bad year, both on and off the field.

3.   There are fears that the company could be heading for closure, following a bad year.

4.   This was a very bad year for the banking industry.

5.   You could call it a bad year.

6.   And er, but last year was a bad year.

7.   The bad year in question could have had unusually severe winter weather but, even without information on this, figures from adjacent states would provide controls.

8.   Although all presidents have their bad years, Harry Truman was probably the last to sink as low as Clinton in public esteem.

9.   Alvarez said he is doing his part to put the bad year behind him.

10.   And because the pension funds make investments for the long term, city officials say they are not concerned by a bad year or two.