Meanwhile, new recruits to the workforce were told they had to get a degree – and a shedload of debt – to get ahead, only to come out and find there weren't the commensurate jobs for them.
Consequently, donor money has flowed in by the shedload, with the staff of the various agencies in its wake.
For $70 a month it promises both downloads and uploads at a gigabit per second, fast enough to send a high-definition feature-length film in a few blinks, and a terabyte (ie, a shedload) of cloud storage.
The most likely explanation is that investors are simply startled by the sheer speed of the fall in oil and the rouble; someone somewhere is losing a shedload of money.
Released a couple of months before the Zep reunion show, it went on to scoop a shedload of Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
Killing There's a shedload of violence, but it's of the horrifically consequential rather than breezy, action-movie kind, as anyone knows who remembers that thing that happened in Series 3 episode 9 that shall remain nameless but caused a nation to swear off television for at least the next 12 hours.
Yes we've both been hugely lucky and we are hugely privileged but I think that somewhere people think I was born and somebody dumped a shedload of money on my head and I swanned off with it.
About an early record by the band Steeleye Span, he observes the way acoustic and amplified instruments "rub up against each other like a shedload of rusted, notched and pitted farm implements".
I learned a shedload about that region, and was provoked to some serious reflection about the relationship of history to current events, as the plays took the audience forward from the mid-19th century to (via Richard Norton-Taylor's verbatim contributions) the absolute present.
This time Iron Man 2 will have to balance Robert Downey Jr with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke and Don Cheadle and Samuel L Jackson and Gwyneth Paltrow, and a shedload of exploding robots.
And then - irony of ironies - I won awards and sold the proverbial shedload: probably because I was no longer actually trying to and people can always tell.
