1.   Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.

2.   Among all the big rich countries, Japan shares with Italy the dubious distinction of being in the worst financial state.

3.   Among environmental hazards, nitrogen has the dubious distinction of posing a triple threat.

4.   And one London tabloid gave Prince Andrew the dubious distinction of making him the first royal family member to have his nude photograph published.

5.   And while some will see it as a dubious distinction, the show is a bonafide reality-based television pioneer.

6.   Anyway, the CBS series starring Daniel Stern enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first new show of the season to get the ax.

7.   Andres Serrano has a wide national reputation, assisted by the dubious distinction of having run afoul of the National Endowment for the Arts not once but twice.

8.   Azmi Bishara earned a dubious distinction when he visited a slum neighborhood here to join a demonstration of its Israeli Arab residents on Sunday night.

9.   Beigel, a Chicago-based lawyer, said it was a somewhat dubious distinction to have given the university its largest alumni gift.

10.   A dubious month of Dodgers baseball ended with a dubious distinction in a disastrous way.