The situation for sheep farmers has been made worse because 2012 was also a bad year due to heavy rain and floods - and then the start of this long winter.

BBC: Cold weather: Winners and losers from the long winter

For a high-powered woman on the go, chic tech gifts go a long way this winter.

FORBES: Style

The list of one-year and two-year contracts this winter is long and growing.

FORBES: Winter Meetings: Owners Still Drawing the Line on Long Term Deals

It has been a positive experience, although the long winter meant this colony did not survive.

BBC: Making a bee-line for city roofs

He said contingency arrangements had been made with other mortuary owners for this winter and that there were long-term plans to extend mortuary facilities at the City General site.

BBC: Third hospital in 'body store' scandal

Kennan put much of this in a long letter to Bohlen in the winter of 1945.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

Saints scrum-half Long will be leaving Knowsley Road this winter after 12 influential years with the club and it was he again who produced a big contribution in a big match.

BBC: St Helens 14-10 Wigan

Henneberry had tied down the covering on the vessel in his backyard so firmly that it had not budged all winter long, not even through this year's blizzards.

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He was forced into two lay-offs around this time last year because of back pains and took a long winter break to work on his fitness.

BBC: Rose out of Carolina tournament

There were long training runs last fall, indoor races last winter and meets throughout Europe this summer.

WSJ: The Secret to Running: Not Running

But this year the gates will remain closed, with the long periods of freezing weather over the winter blamed for damage to the drains and pump house.

BBC: Brynamman Lido sunk by ?20,000 repair bill