Sentence examples for an unfortunate year from inspiring English sources

At the Tate, however, Simon Wilson, curator of interpretation, said the Stuckists had picked an unfortunate year to mount their protest.

He has finished first in 16 races but has also been the runner-up in 17, and in 2012, he picked an unfortunate year to be the second-best horse on the planet.

A: No. It's just a very unfortunate year for Southeast Asia.

As this week ends and an agreement is not reached, I wouldn't look to any day in what is left of this unfortunate year for a resolution.

Many of us experienced a few unfortunate years of invincible self-involvement, testing moral boundaries and prone to stormy egotism and hero worship.

During the one unfortunate year I spent as a client of Oxford (owned by United Healthcare, it made some attempt to deny payment on almost every claim I made.

As has been the almost-annual custom of that long-lived rock band (we'll overlook that unfortunate year when the group was denied its familiar performance space to make way for Cirque du Soleil), the Allman Brothers Band will return to the Beacon for 10 shows in March, its press representatives said on Wednesday.

Ruskin scholars tend to regard his marriage as an unfortunate six-year blip that only got in the way of the great work ahead of him.

It's easy for people in the Administration to believe that, after an unfortunate eight-year interlude, the Bush family has resumed its governance — and about time, too.

It's easy for people in the Administration to believe that, after an unfortunate eight-year interlude, the Bush family has resumed its governance and about time, too.

P.S. "The Descendants" is Payne's comeback film after an unfortunate seven years away from feature-film directing; I wouldn't be surprised if his next projects (and he has recently spoken of his intention of getting to them in a hurry) prove to be more audacious in their conception and their realization.