| 1 | That's the business cycle. | |
| 2 | Sex, like everything else in life, has its ebbs and flows. | |
| 3 | The ups and downs of the rival parties furnished subjects for two excellent cartoons. | |
| 4 | Going forward, we cannot tolerate the same old boom and bust economy of the past. | |
| 5 | Natural ups and downs that appear in climate data make detecting long-term trends challenging. |