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I was going through a bad patch at the time.

You're out of a job, and going through a bad patch.

Nathan and I had being going through a bad patch, but nothing too significant.

After going through a bad patch during the recession, business has never been better.

The welfare profession went through a bad patch on this.

It is currently going through a bad patch of such uncertainty.

"It's one thing to go through a bad patch," she said.

The club went through a bad patch in 1996, when financial and personnel problems arose.

I had been going through a bad patch with Soo ever since she'd found she was pregnant again.

At this time, she is going through a bad patch with Jim and eventually leaves him, moving into the flat above the pub.

He and Krystle are going through a bad patch and they separate.

"When you go through a bad patch, you have to figure out what you can do to help the team," he said.

As we have already seen, the US dollar went through a bad patch in 1986, in company with the oil market.

Every team goes through a bad patch.

"I went through a bad patch in the late 1980's and early 1990's," he said.

I went through a bad patch a month or two ago because they started some medicaments to which I was allergic.

Hard Times: Caroline's business goes through a bad patch and she uses money from the household account to support it.

But things change eventually and Beckenham went through a bad patch when their grounds man died.

Even when they knew he was going through a bad patch they would continue to deliver dangerous back-passes to him.

Sharples is going through a bad patch now, but somehow we're going to get over it.

It could be, of course, that Mr. Mitterrand is just going through a bad patch and will, as before, bounce back.

In January 1995 they go through a bad patch in their relationship, and Della turns to her old friend Steve for support.

"He's going through a bad patch.

Founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946, the orchestra went through a bad patch just a few years ago.

'She went through a bad patch,' said Mrs Khalid.