When the market sours, most small-company funds fall through the floor.

Only later, when markets soured, did the magnitude of what they had promised become apparent.

But will central design centers shut down if the market sours?

The last downtown office building was completed in 1991, before the recession hit and the market soured.

When the market soured, the lawyer said, he simply had to admit to himself, "Well, that was dumb."

All the town houses were sold before the market soured.

"Once the market soured, you never saw investors run so fast in your life," she said.

And if the market sours, who will buy them?

But the market soured, and for more than a year the firm repeatedly pushed back her starting date.

But when the price got above $30 a barrel at the end of August, the market soured on the stocks.