Only after sustained protest by the international literary community was he released - nearly two bleak years later.

Communal activities, picnics, and plays went on despite the bleak years.

In the bleak years of the Depression, his father and three friends would play chamber music at the house every weekend.

We were grateful just to be standing there in that heat after such a long bleak year in the city.

And its profit margins are still higher in this bleak year than airlines achieve even at their best.

Yes, indeed, that horse was important, their lone means of survival through the bleak years of the war.

My father was lucky to be employed during those bleak years.

Compaq continues to be an exception in an otherwise bleak year for personal computer companies.

She couldn't even recall how she had lived without him these past five bleak years.

But they also remember the bleak years of the early 90's when the crowds came but almost nobody spent.