Sentence examples for had been lean from inspiring English sources

"The previous decades had been lean in terms of creativity in costume jewelry," Mr. Top said.

The meat had been lean; rare in both senses of the word, it gave good text the next morning.

But the previous few weeks had been lean and she had earned $60 on average doing a bit of cutting in the fields.

"Something to do with forbidden and secret things" had been Lean's assessment of cinema as a boy, but some things, clearly, were more forbidden than others.

The years before Sinfield's arrival at Leeds had been lean, but the emergence of players such as Sinfield himself, Rob Burrow, Danny McGuire and Jamie Jones-Buchanan coincided with a golden period for the Headingley club.

But I found justification for her exploiting him by recalling that all our years had been lean ones.

Andrew Haines, chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority, said it was "absolutely 100% untrue" that the independent regulator had been leant on.

Last weekend a senior figure from one of the regulators, Monitor, said they had been "leaned on" by Whitehall to delay the publication until after the conference.

When Biffen waved through Murdoch's takeover there were claims that he had been leant on by Thatcher, which he strenuously denied.

There were claims that the investigators, who come under the authority of the transport ministry, had been leant on to delay revealing its findings, to allow someone high-profile to break the "exclusive".

NHS England denied on Sunday it had been "leaned on" to accept the £8bn figure, but indicated that it might press for that sum to be revisited and increased before the 2020 general election.