Sentence examples for during lean years from inspiring English sources

Whatever was left over would be put into a "rainy day account" to offset deficits during lean years.

In fact, in the Yankee universe, where history and legacy sustain fans during lean years, the Mets don't really exist in any serious or fundamental way.

He enjoyed striking the figure of a bourgeois gentleman, though one who, during lean years after the Second World War, engaged in art forgery and currency counterfeiting.

He spoke fondly of dressing on Halloween as Dave Kingman, the face of the Mets during lean years three decades ago.

It has been suggested that this surprisingly slow pace of change could have resulted because selection by humans was relatively weak (Fuller 2007) or because early farmers supplemented their seed stocks with wild varieties during lean years (Tanno and Willcox 2006).

Did you ever consider giving up or perhaps taking a job during lean years or difficult times?

His agenda is to make the organization strong and smart enough that it survives and is loved by the people of OKC even during leaner years.

However, it would also involve lower taxation in years with lower returns, and higher taxation in years with higher returns which somewhat eases the taxation burden during leaner years.

So often during the lean years their teams have been unemotional, unconvinced, hesitant.

Now even the remnant nonconformists who hung on during the lean years are making bank.

The Jets, who went four years without a price increase during their lean years before the Bill Parcells era, announced their third straight increase yesterday.