Sentence examples for disaster year from inspiring English sources

"This is going to be the second-biggest shipping year ever, even though it might feel like the biggest disaster year ever," Mr. Myers said.

"It's been a disaster year, but you know I've been praying and I have my family and I love tennis, and to be able to come back at Wimbledon is pretty awesome," Williams said.

Insurers around the world were hit by claims of $108bn£68bnbn) following an unprecedented run of catastrophes, including Japan's earthquake in March 2011, in what was the second-costliest natural disaster year on record.

In this so-called disaster year (rampjaar), French troops, under the command of Louis XIV, invaded the United Provinces, capturing a number of Dutch cities (Nadler 1999, 305).

"It's been a disaster year, but I've been praying," Williams said.

For the Dutch Republic, 1672 proved calamitous, becoming known as the "disaster year" (Dutch: rampjaar) because of the Franco-Dutch War and the Third Anglo-Dutch War in which the Netherlands were invaded by France under Louis XIV, England, Münster, and Cologne.

When I won 16 and 14, they were almost like disaster years.

This is a reflection of the sales disaster years of the Great Recession and the fact that carmakers hope to pound every last penny out of current technology before bringing out higher-mileage, cleaner and safer vehicles.

(It's important to point out that earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - for example, the earthquake in Haiti -- helped make 2010 one of the world's worst disaster years, but they have not been linked with climate change.

The people of Africa have been killed in football stadium disasters year after year.

Utilization rates in five post-disaster years were compared with the pre-disaster year.