A few weeks ago, he found himself in a bad patch.

I was going through a bad patch at the time.

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

This is just a bad patch we are going through.

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.

We have never had a disagreement, even during the bad patch.

He's just having a bad patch at work, I'm sure that's what it is.

In my early twenties, I had a bad patch when the world looked better through a glass.

After a bad patch last winter, the stocks are up more than 30 percent, on average.

Their worst patch was in 1989 and 1990, before recession really bit.

The welfare profession went through a bad patch on this.

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

I was afraid the weight of the boat would soon find the bad patches.

Can you back out and circle around the bad patch?"

Wall Street is suffering through its worst patch in a decade.

Should I cut it all back or just prune the bad patches?

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

"The Mexicans would force us to kill them all," he wrote during a particularly bad patch.

They had weathered bad patches before and come through them smiling.

I'm all for sticking by players through bad patches but my patience is running out.

"The truth is relationships, however good, will go through bad patches.

All this is not just a bad patch for Bill Clinton in foreign policy.

Bad patches of ground still existed, and the terrain looked no different, but already he could feel some changes in the earth.

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