Given the rocky ride on the stock market over the past ten years it has become increasingly popular, as a concept at least.

Those who stay the course are in for a rocky ride.

His big strategic gambit also received a rocky ride.

But it could be a rocky ride until then.

He endured a rocky ride last week, issuing a profit warning and halting a share buyback scheme.

If you walk beside a rocky shore now, you might hear a faint, recurrent sound of rattling pebbles.

I watched one this week dropping a mussel from a height on to a rocky shore, painstakingly retrieving it and repeating the operation in the hope of breaking its shell.

Relatives, well-wishers and fishermen crowd the rocky shore.

The consequences of a tanker running up on a rocky shore don't bear thinking about.

The sea glistens beyond patchwork fields and farm buildings, and it's a 10-minute walk down to the rocky shore.

They set off at dawn, marching across the rocky shoreline, carrying inflated lorry tyres on their backs.

We bobbed around just off the rocky shoreline of the former maximum-security penitentiary.

The park includes 210 acres of rocky shoreline open field and wooded trails.

The county has rugged, rocky shoreline and several mountains.

The rocky shoreline creates a natural environment for numerous tidepools that form at the cliff bases.

Contemporary evangelism doesn't deal with rocky soil, because it doesn't get where you have to go.

Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

The rocky soil represents those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy.

Perhaps yours are by a wall - always a very dry spot, especially on rocky soil - but, at some moment, were thoroughly soaked during the lousy summer?

So far only one body has been buried in the unmarked holes, cut into the rocky soil with heavy machinery, workers at the site said.

We've been together three happy years although it got off to a rocky start.

But the digital pow-wow got off to a rocky start.

It was a rocky start, at one time borrowing tyres, and he conducted his business from a telephone box outside his lock-up garage.

He gets off to a rocky start when he has to make a vegetable curry on a rickety train and starts feeling travel sick.

The new company made a rocky start but has since rebounded.

Every day, more sunlight hits its barren, rocky surface.

Frozen seas are likely to cover a rocky surface.

They are attached by rhizoids or haptera to a rocky surface or other alga.

With a somewhat uneven and rocky surface, the town was better suited to grazing than cultivation.

It was cleared and graded several years ago, and has a dirt, rocky surface.

We come upon a steep, rocky trail that looks like a lava flow frozen in mid-run.

Up and up a rocky trail and stone steps push to the top.

Hazards of the hike include a steep and rocky trail, risk of lightning strike, snow, and avalanche danger in winter.

The winding, rocky trails have glorious views.

Between the region's rocky trails and roads, which cut up the camels' feet, and the hostility between camels and mules, the experiment was a failure.