1.   Losing my job was a terrible blow, and it took me quite a while to recover.

2.   Losing my job was the start of a run of bad luck that year.

3.   Losing the business was a bitter pill to swallow.

4.   To lose your foothold was to be trodden down.

5.   Losing was not in the script.

6.   The candidate made an emotional concession speech when it was clear that he had lost.

7.   Superbly taken -- but at the wrong end Were losing again...

8.   My remark about Coun Richardson losing his grip was a genuine comment of political reality and echoes what many Labour people themselves are saying privately.

9.   Also losing his job was Ron Woodard, head of the troubled commercial airplanes unit.

10.   And losing was something new to Greene.