Preposition: of

• life: It's in this unlikely place, the doldrums of life, that Arab Strap was born.

Converse of object

• hit: Again the club hit the doldrums in the seventies with little in the way of success coming their way.

• beat: One of the worldâs leading fluid power companies focuses its R&D to increase market share and beat recessionary doldrums.

Preposition: for

• year: The Dance has been in the doldrums for a few years.

• time: It's been in the doldrums for a long time!

Adjective modifier

• economic: It has the potential to boost prosperity and lift Europe out of the economic doldrums.

• domestic: That means the average person spends 16 days a year or eight hours a week in the domestic doldrums.

• creative: Maybe that'll help jar me out of my creative doldrums.

• financial: Mark slightly in the financial doldrums, with the result that half of the album is without a backing band.

Noun used with modifier

• summer: Good news from Haynes Publishing and Marchpole Even while the stock market remains stuck in the summer doldrums some shares produce good news.

• winter: Coming out to everyone Makes the winter doldrums fun.

• career: Those facing the possibility of redundancy or mid life career doldrums will gain in equal measures too.