Sentence examples for have been leaner from inspiring English sources

Recent years have been leaner.

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

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.

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

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

What might have been Lean's final film, an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, ran into funding difficulties.

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).

These past few years have been lean times in many respects — but they've been boom years for agonizingly dumb, pound-your-head-on-the-table economic fallacies.

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.