1.   The companies are getting smaller and smaller because of bleak economic conditions and employees fear for their jobs - so they work longer hours.

2.   In the emergency and surgical wards, those wounded lay in rusting cots amid bleak conditions.

3.   In the emergency and surgical wards, those wounded lay in rusting cots amid the bleak conditions of the hospital.

4.   And even the current bleak condition is not going to be permanent.

5.   Australian companies expect they will continue to fight bleak economic conditions during the second half of the year, a private sector survey said Tuesday.

6.   He was held there in bleak conditions until the end of the war.

7.   Relatives of the crew met with Putin Wednesday and bombarded him with questions about the accident and bleak conditions in the military.

8.   The leading riders, with comfortable margins in the overall standings, were content to stay back in the bleak conditions.

9.   The official said the bleak condition of the domestic economy hit the spending of non-wage earners and of small-scale private business owners.

10.   Despite this, unemployment in the country would inevitably increase next year due to bleak global economic conditions, ministry officials were quoted by the paper as saying.