You know, I probably thought about that a time or two during some of the really dark periods.

The city after a long dark period of almost 15 years is reviving in many team sports.

"Certainly fashion is going though a darker period than in the last five years."

This led to a dark period in the performer's life.

Parents considered sending their children back, as it seemed the school was out of its dark period.

You refer to a very dark period in human history.

The dark period for the club started in the 1980s and continued through the 1990s.

For Tamil people, this was a dark period of their history.

It was the darkest period of the war for them all.

There is an ongoing debate over the importance of the "dark period".