Sentence examples for a leaner time from inspiring English sources
If you can't get through your leftovers fast enough, consider freezing what's left and defrosting it at a leaner time, when there's less in the fridge.
It can be a lean time at the market.
And the Japanese disaster comes at a lean time for reinsurers.
In a lean time for trade in ivory and sandalwood, militant groups may have helped him get guns.
Kamps's shares are widely held top managers own only 15%—and investors have had a lean time lately.
The Giants will play the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 5, but generally the winter can be a lean time for a New York sports fan.
"I keep hearing about job layoffs," he added, "and I get the feeling we could be in for a lean time".
Palaeontology in Britain was going through a lean time and its practitioners desperately wanted to believe that fossil gold had been struck.
The fishermen, firemen and farmers who have kept Cornish rugby on the map have had a lean time since the dawn of the professional game.
The summer is a lean time for them, as they wait for the sea ice to come back so that they can hunt.
Yet others offer tools to track a startup's performance continuously.Having a lean time of itThe lean methodology has caught on quickly, but implementing it is not easy.
