She had spent hard, bitter years striving for this very moment of restored contact.

The 1980s were considered as the most bitter years of the Hungarian football, but the 1990s proved to be the worst.

Melanie thought of all the long bitter years during which her benefactor had obviously been alone.

Here he was in command of a carrier battle group again after twelve bitter years.

By the time the next message came, it was too late to take immediate action and five more bitter years had to pass.

And unless they do, they remember 1995 as another bitter year.

After all those bitter years, I have a career again.

It was part of what they had been fighting for, through all the bitter years.

Tomorrow he was to be discharged from the Army, still whole and with nothing but three bitter years to show for it.

It was a bitter cold February day and a bitter year.