Sentence examples for a bumpy patch from inspiring English sources

Aung San Suu Kyi described the process as going through "a bumpy patch".

But not just science hit a bumpy patch after Sept. 11.

If the labor market was hitting a bumpy patch, you would expect this figure to increase rather than fall.

"There's been a massacre of companies," said Gianluca Vecchi, chairman of Andromeda, a chandelier and lighting factory that he said is facing a bumpy patch.

From her own inquiries, Ms. Guest believed that Frederick Douglass Academy II was a strong school that had gone through a bumpy patch.

One leading Tory Eurosceptic said the anti-EU campaign was experiencing a bumpy patch because many figures had been waiting decades for this moment.

It brought Taco Bell back from a very bumpy patch in 1998-99, when falling sales forced some franchisees to turn to Yum! for loans.

With Sam Allardyce a fan, the recent bumpy patch in Townsend's career that saw him sidelined by Tottenham following a fall-out with Maurcio Pochettino and then relegated with Newcastle looks to be over.

The Depression era was a bumpy, parochial patch in American culture; no one more fully exemplified its regressive side than Benton, who taught at the league from 1926 to 1935.

The chosen site was owned by the Manchester Cathedral authorities, but although conveniently sited next to the wagon works it was a "bumpy, stony patch in summer, [and] a muddy, heavy swamp in the rainy months".

He just needs to relax and ride out this bumpy patch, and all his problems will drop away.