Sentence examples for dire year from inspiring English sources
In Lahore, Pakistan's second-most populous city, there were 21,292 confirmed dengue patients in 2011, a particularly dire year.
The success of the new Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago offered a bright spot in a dire year.
However, the vaping boom could not offset a dire year for Britain's supermarkets as Britons were expected to spend 0.7% less in the aisles this year, at £145bn.
Over on the New Town side of the festival, it has been a pretty dire year for Assembly, which faces an uncertain future in George Street because of Edinburgh council's ill-conceived plans for the site.
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In this generally dire year for Broadway, though, less drama was generated by the business of winning and losing than by a competition between the speakers and the orchestra, which had instructions to drown out any acceptance speech that lasted more than thirty seconds.
The clothing retailer Brooks Brothers is reprinting advertisements that appeared during dire years like 1934.
In fact, the Space Coast is enjoying a revival since the dire years after the space shuttle program was mothballed in 2011.
After his father's conviction for rape in 1996, Karl Oyston's mother, Vicki, took over as the chairman for dire years at a tumbledown ground.
Falcao may not strike fear into the hearts of the travelling fans but Spurs need to be wary as he seems to be finding his feet once more after two dire years in the Premier League.
Lambert seemed to have nine lives as he somehow managed to hang on for two-and-a-half dire years that Villa supporters will never get back, but Sherwood is unlikely to be cut the same slack and the potential interest and availability of other managers – David Moyes and Brendan Rodgers in particular – only serves to crank up the pressure on the man who re-energised the club last season.
