From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha bumpy ride/timea bumpy ride/timePROBLEMhaving a lot of problems for a long time Shareholders have had a bumpy ride. → bumpy
Examples from the Corpus
a bumpy ride/time• It is therefore going to be, at best, a bumpy ride.• Since the programme was announced in 1998, like previous eradication campaigns, it has had a bumpy ride.• Euro Disney had a bumpy ride as the market digested its results, sinking to a low of 813p down 35p.• It was the same man who had jostled her repeatedly during a bumpy ride on the Lexington Avenue Express subway.• The plant had had a bumpy ride since Cellatex was sold off by the chemicals giant Rhne-Poulenc in 1991.• It had been a bumpy ride, through the tail end of a thunderstorm. 