21.   Looking at the figures, you could be forgiven for thinking the recession is already over.

22.   The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.

23.   Most consumers seem unconvinced that the recession is over.

24.   A general recession was the backwash of the crisis in the housing market.

25.   That last recession was particularly hard on the poor, but the fat cats barely noticed a dip in their bank accounts.

26.   The recession has not been too unkind to HCIMA.

27.   Hopes are still expressed that old manufacturing industries will re-employ all those previously made redundant as soon as the economic recession is over.

28.   He says that before the election the message was that the recession is almost over.

29.   The economic slump was nowhere to be seen, but hairline recession was another thing.

30.   With little sign that the recession is lifting people are having to cut their cloth accordingly.