We know from our members that small firms are looking to shed staff in the first three months of 2012.

She would shed her tears in private for what they had lost.

American manufacturers have shed more than two million jobs in the last three years.

The industry has also shed 150,000 jobs, or 35 percent of the work force, in the last decade.

She'd tried to shed it, in her earlier days, but found the effort quite impossible.

By July 2009, it had shed 1.2 million jobs in one year.

A lot of blood has been shed over that one in the last 1,000 years.

Here, an attempt to shed a little light in all the heat.

With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

The analysis shed little light on the reason for the differences in treatment.