Not even the remembered freezes of the 1670s surpassed this brutal year.

The Canadiens, as we've discussed here before, are having a brutal year.

It was done in a couple of brutal years.

FOR managers of most small-capitalization value funds, it has been a brutal few years.

She couldn't imagine how Mac must feel after five brutal years.

Yes, it was a brutal hundred years, marked by horrendous destruction.

"We had one brutal year where it was over 100 degrees for a whole week."

But with 2012 shaping up to be a brutal year for jobs and the economy, even low interest rates will become less of a support.

In short, for many retailers January was the bleak end to a brutal year.

It was a brutal year for the economy as well.