Sentence examples for have been lean from inspiring English sources

"There have been lean years, but you stick with it.

They have been lean times under former captains Tony Shaw and now Buckley.

For the past couple of years, work prospects have been lean, the worker/soccer fans said.

But there have been lean years — for example, when the market took a dip, Sullivan said.

This bonanza for borrowers means the years since 2010 have been lean for savers.

Diets of the past would tend to have been lean (that is, to have favoured protein and complex carbohydrates like starch over fats and sugars).

Recent years have been leaner.

The health secretary said he was concerned that Gary Walker, the former chief executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, appeared to have been "leaned on".

"New projects have been approved, local governments have been given the all-clear to re-engage with financing platforms, and banks have been leant on to extend additional credit.

"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.