1.   We listened to his familiar tale of woe as he talked again about the failure of his marriage.

2.   Had a more diverse stock existed it would have been more likely for a less familiar tale to have been selected.

3.   And we are clearly in the first chapter of a very familiar tale of a sentimental education.

4.   After the turmoil in the markets this year, investors may find a very familiar tale.

5.   But this movie is little more than a cardboard retelling of a familiar tale.

6.   He simply cannot compete in these economic conditions, a familiar tale of woe.

7.   In other ways, too, the report tells a familiar tale.

8.   Indeed, this familiar tale of the friendly timeslot is driving programming moves that may leave viewers surfing unusually hard for their favorite shows come midseason.

9.   It is ultimately the acting in this familiar tale of an aging criminal forced back into the life that makes it watchable.

10.   Now, in the villages of coastal Maine, the saga of the sea cucumber is a familiar tale.