The bleaker prospect is that there will be no export market at any price.

This is a bleak prospect for those coming on to the academic job market soon.

An even bleaker prospect is ahead for the Yankees' competition.

He noted that he spent $500,000 of his own money on the race despite bleak prospects.

That may be a bleak prospect given his scoreless performance last night.

I hope, too, that all the parties will adhere to it, however bleak the prospect may sometimes be.

Clearly the construction industry has extremely bleak prospects, and the Government do not take its major concerns especially seriously.

At last, good news for children facing the bleak prospect of full-time day care in a "quality" setting.

We now face bleak prospects, a plan having been shelved for entirely political reasons.

So bleak a prospect didn't sit well with the temper of the times.