Sentence examples for a lean period from inspiring English sources

"Talk about a lean period".

They've gone through a lean period, but it will be a tough game for us.

Either way, this is a lean period like the one that immediately follows the Oscars.

This money-spinner will help to carry Pfizer through a lean period.

As ever, this year's clay-court season was a lean period for American men.

The leftwing film director Ken Loach has confessed his embarrassment at having made a McDonald's advert during a lean period in his career.

After a decidedly lean period, the art and antiques dealer has it all to play for.

Retail, national and classified advertising revenue all posted increases of less than 10percentt, providing hope for more significant growth in 2004 after a long lean period because of the unsettled economy.

"We've been through a very lean period with the US, but I don't think that will persist indefinitely," says Dr Harry Ward, a Glasgow University scientist in the Lisa collaboration.

"We went through a long, lean period in nuclear," says Aris Candris, chief executive of Westinghouse, the Toshiba -owned company supplying the reactor design for Southern as well as 12 of the 20 other new projects planned in the U.S. "That gave us plenty of time to lock arms as an industry and decide next time we were going to do it right".

Europe, as Germany's most important export market, is beginning to stabilise after a very long lean period and Germany is benefiting from that.