Sentence examples for painful year from inspiring English sources

EMI is coming off a painful year.

It had been a painful year.

THIS has been a painful year for Uzbekistan's government.

It's going to be another long and painful year.

"2000 was a very painful year," Mr. Allen said.

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After two painful years, she is a contender again.

The couple had been married for about 17 years, Mr. Pannirello said — painful years for his daughter.

Even at best the country faces several painful years as it tries to regain competitiveness.

It took Mr Stals several painful years to bring inflation under control.

Its last, painful years in office had been marked by sleaze, ineptitude and political gridlock.