1.   A hospital chief executive has quashed rumours that people will lose their jobs.

2.   At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting.

3.   Four people lost one or both legs, and another lost an arm.

4.   Many people had lost everything they owned in the floods and many were now going hungry, he said.

5.   More probably, the mass desertion is another sign of how the people have lost faith in perestroika and its unfulfilled promises.

6.   People sometimes lose perspective on what is really important in life.

7.   Sixty people have already lost their jobs at the Norfolk Smokehouses food processing plant.

8.   Some people do lose weight when they normalize their eating, but not everyone.

9.   Some people have lost work, and this will continue to happen until the computer system is fixed.