Sentence examples for lean seasons from inspiring English sources

The tourism business is a lot like farming; it is seasonal and involves managing a financial cycle between fat and lean seasons.

Many farmers are still paying years of debt from the lean seasons.

It has been strengthened by all those lean seasons in a Philadelphia organization that had been synonymous with futility.

Instead, it is thought that at least initially the new animals and plants that were developed through domestication may have helped to maintain ways of life that emphasized hunting and gathering by providing insurance in lean seasons.

Recent assessment missions reveal widespread losses of maize and sorghum, staples in rural areas, which are harvested green and eaten during lean seasons, in addition to reduced sources of pasture and water for livestock.

Having suffered through eight lean seasons of no playoffs — one of them the locked-out season of 2004-5 — the Rangers have now qualified three years in a row.

No Lean Season is a nonprofit designed to solve seasonal poverty.

Bran is meant for livestock and only eaten in the lean season if people are starving.

Many go hungry towards the end of these dry months, known as the "lean season".

In a lean season, this show had a well-fed look.

Late rains mean trouble for the "lean season", when food from the last harvest runs out.