Sentence examples for lean before from inspiring English sources

"They were so lean before.

But many stores kept inventories lean before the holidays, leaving less merchandise to discount, bad for bargain hunters but good for profits.

Mr. Davenport, a professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, used mathematics and experiments with wind tunnels to estimate how far buildings can lean before they fall over.

"[Honda was] lean before lean was fashionable, and the whole company operates that way," says Merrill Lynch's Casesa.

But Mr. Silver has endured lean times before, most notably during the first two years under Gov. George E. Pataki, who forced the Assembly to accept tax cuts on the wealthy and an overhaul to state welfare programs that many Democratic lawmakers abhorred.

"What made him such a great agent is that he was a great editor to begin with," said Mr. Smith, whom Mr. Burger represented for nearly 40 years, and who in the lean years before "Gorky Park" (which was published in 1981) wrote more than two dozen mostly pseudonymous novels.

We wanted to sell The Lean Entrepreneur BEFORE it was officially published (Feb 26 2013) so we could build up pre-sales for the official pub date.

"If it appears that Rippon comes before the committee and says 'No, I was leant on' before, then that blows Entwistle's cover," said Mellor.

Bob, whose parents placed him here when he was 8, leans before his stereo system and pushes buttons until it emits the feel-the-fire wailing of Kenny Rogers.

GM's preemptive strike to get leaner before the next downturn is likely to be followed by Ford Motor Co., which has said it is restructuring and will lay off an unspecified number of white-collar workers.

In addition to the TG males being lighter and leaner before the HFD challenge, they also failed to significantly increase their body weight in response to the HFD while WT male body weights increased 22.9% in five weeks.