1.   She was about to lose her husband to a younger woman.

2.   The Marchioness had lost her husband, but worse was to follow.

3.   Yet a woman who had lost a husband or failed to get one at all, might find herself in genuine distress.

4.   It was one thing to lose your husband to another woman -- but how could she possibly compete with the manifold attractions of a fax machine?

5.   Over the past year Trixie Selman has lost her husband and suffered a stroke.

6.   Since I lost my husband I have a lot of free time and hospital radio is just one of the many ways in which I fill it.

7.   And at a moment when she fears she has lost her husband, she shows a flash of insight.

8.   And so, for a while, for the first time since Susan Renert had lost her husband to brain cancer, she was moving forward.

9.   And that sentiment was poignantly expressed this week by a group of women whose husbands were lost in the World Trade Center attack.

10.   And, of course, she lost her husband on that fateful April night.