• About a dozen post boxes in Kensington, west London, have had to be sealed up after a postman lost a set of keys.

    BBC: Kensington post boxes sealed after postman loses keys

  • He has lost a set in each of his last three matches, despite playing unseeded opponents.

    WSJ: Novak Djokovic Survives Scare; Belgian Gets Props From Federer

  • For the first time in his career Monday, Nadal lost the first set of a first-round match at a Grand Slam tournament.

    WSJ: Heard on the Field

  • "If we do not (complete Doha) a new farm bill will be set in place for a number of years and we will have lost the opportunity quite literally into the next decade, " Mr Johanns said.

    BBC: US Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns

  • Russian number one Safin lost the first set of his match on a tie-break but came back strongly to win the next two 7-5 7-5, before closing out the match 6-1 as the Argentine crumbled.

    BBC: Russia in sight of final

  • Wallwork had lost a lot of money in two failed businesses before he set up the initially legitimate concern from the 10 Arches scrapyard.

    BBC: Ronnie Wallwork

  • But once Smith had been run out, the home side lost wickets at regular intervals to set a total that for much of the Surrey innings appeared insufficient.

    BBC: Parry inspires unlikely Lancs win

  • When the markets crashed during the Depression and people lost their life savings, our government put in place a set of rules and safeguards to make sure that such a crisis never happened again, and then put a safety net in place to make sure that our elders would never be impoverished the way they had been.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Michigan Commencement

  • Lara and her colleagues, who set out to find the lost kingdom of Yamatai ( a genuinely lost realm), find themselves shipwrecked and stranded on an island.

    FORBES: Tomb Raider (2013): Review

  • An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant bubble and suffered a painful bust.

    NEWSWEEK: Business

  • Mr Speaker, in my letter to the Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee three weeks ago, I said I would set our proposals, to help those who lost out as a result of the withdrawal of the 10 pence starting rate of tax for the longer term, at the Pre-Budget Report later this year.

    BBC: Full statement: Tax changes

  • The GoFlex Net (nee DockStar) product seems to be a bid to regain the kind of management interface that integrated hard drive manufacturers lost to set top units like DVR devices.

    FORBES: Newly Competitive Seagate Spins New Ideas In Hard Drives

  • Yes, Scotland should have won two of the games they have lost and losing all their games has set up a horrible clash against the Auld Enemy.

    BBC: Praying for a Scottish miracle

  • Though this generation is sticking around longer, the results aren't always wonderful: 13 of the 30-something men lost their first-round matches without winning a set, almost as many as the 14 who won their matches.

    WSJ: French Open 2012: The Year Tennis Skewed Old

  • The 1987 crash, when the Dow lost 20% in a matter of hours, was blamed squarely on program trading, in which computers are set to sell (or buy) when stocks hit a certain threshold.

    FORBES: Greek Woes Or Trader's Mistake? Take Your Pick

  • At one point, when Bruce adopts the Eurotrashy role of a decadent playboy, Mr. Bale shows some genuinely amusing signs of life, but the decadence is soon lost or set aside in favor of less flamboyant moods.

    WSJ: Holy Melancholy, 'Batman'!

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