Sentence examples for bleak years from inspiring English sources

Just as it did in the bleak years after the colonels came to rule in 1967.

Mohammadi is hopeful the Iran tribunal will unearth the truth about those bleak years.

His good humour and courtesy shone through in his last, increasingly bleak years.

Two newsworthy developments from the University of Chicago, a place where I spent several bleak years as a graduate student.

Before he died in 1989, Mr. Tezuka's work mainly focused on taboos revealed during the bleak years after the Second World War.

(Many house church leaders are veterans of the 1989 pro-democracy protests who turned to Christianity in the bleak years of government repression that followed).

In 1980 it had been a fascinating but bleak year.

In a particularly bleak year, the music being made was sweet and homesick.

The bleak end of a bleak year cried out for sanity and rescue.

2013 looks set to be a bleak year for social workers.

We were so grateful just to be there, in the heat, after a long bleak year in the city.