1.   For over two long, deeply unhappy years, it had been a prison.

2.   After enduring an unhappy year, he packed his bags and headed to College Station.

3.   After spending two-and-a-half unhappy years at big New York City schools, I transferred to a small rural college where it felt right.

4.   After several unhappy years working for others, he struck out on his own.

5.   After three unhappy years studying the Koran at a Muslim school in which his father enrolled him, Conde ran away to live with Sidi.

6.   Brovelli suffered silently under those restrictions for five unhappy years.

7.   For the apparel industry, it was an unhappy year.

8.   He came to Ukiah and the bucolic life by way of the University of California at Berkeley, where he spent some unhappy years teaching ancient history.

9.   He spends several unhappy years in prison, and the story comes to an abrupt, melodramatic conclusion at the end of the war.

10.   To please his father, he spent three unhappy years studying medicine.