It took a six-year legal struggle and a Supreme Court ruling that a taxpayer-financed school must accept women to get them there.

The winning streak ended last year, along with his six-year struggle to be competitive on a relative shoestring.

In their six-year struggle to prove that they are not a party of incompetent has-beens, Britain's sad-sack Conservatives have tried nearly everything.

On 2 October 1999, after a six-year struggle with cancer, he jumped to his death from the balcony of his 11th-storey Halifax apartment.

That was achieved in a six-year struggle.

The lawsuit itself represents a six-year legal struggle that ultimately became a highly publicized test of the government's credibility.

Silvester died after a six-year struggle with multiple myeloma on November 27, 2006, at the age of 65 and Luther Simmons retired shortly thereafter.

IN June 1969, Ethel and James Lee were officially allowed, after a six-year struggle, to adopt a child they had been bringing up.

She launched her campaign to save the theater fresh from a successful six-year struggle to save New London's 100-year-old Union Station.

Sverre could now finally, after a six-year struggle, claim to be the sole and uncontested king of Norway.