Sentence examples for lean crop from inspiring English sources

Chad Pennington, who ran the 40 in 4.84 and directed the Marshall University offense like a seasoned pro, was widely considered the best quarterback in a lean crop.

The lean crop in 2004, by contrast, did pretty well: These 169 companies have delivered a median gain since their offering dates of 11%, versus 4% for identically timed hypothetical investments in the S&P 500.

The yellow brown earths, forming on the Quaternary red clay or weathered material of limestone in hot, humid and rainy climate conditions in Guizhou karst areas, are viewed as the main body of soil erosion inherently and considered to be problematic in poor water-holding capacity, unstable structures, and even lean crop productivity (Gao and Li, 2007).

Lean, freshly cropped, somewhere between adolescent foolhardiness and midlife crisis, acting shiftily and buying sandwiches on apocalyptic scale.

What, people asked, did Frank Dye think he was playing at? Bill Brockbank was 21 then, a gifted racing sailor, and when I meet him in the lush surroundings of his sailing club near Waltham Abbey 50 years after the voyage he is still tall and lean, with closely cropped grey-white hair and a neatly trimmed beard.

INNOVATION has yielded a new crop of lean consumer electronics that are poised to transform how businesspeople do their work without compromising speed, power and function.

With low-sulphur diesel now available in America, and a new crop of lean, clean diesel cars coming ashore from Europe, a modern common-rail, turbocharged diesel car capable of 50mpg or more ought to be the answer.And so it would be were it not for the global shortage of diesel fuel.

"If you want to write about something, a journal or autobiography, you got to kind of live it," Mr. Brown, now 66 and lean as a riding crop, said in an interview in the track cafeteria one morning after a few hours of riding.

And the country is in the midst of what is poetically called the "barley hump," the lean season after the fall crop is eaten and before the spring crop is harvested.

"There's no doubt the economics lean towards planting a GMO crop," Villwock says.

Jung is lean and sleek, with closely cropped fine black hair.