Sentence examples for thin times from inspiring English sources

Even in thin times his best tends to come against the best.

Artistically at least, these are supposed to be thin times for rock music, particularly rock of the stadium-filling variety.

There is a blockage here, a sense of riches to be cashed in now before the thin times to come.

But in thin times they take an interest in such matters, squeezing the industry's margins.More radical reform might follow, especially if the stockmarkets continue to produce disappointing returns.

Now the building, restored after some thin times, survives as Donelle Dadigan's Hollywood History Museum, Ms. Dadigan being a "Beverly Hills real estate developer and passionate Hollywood memorabilia collector".

Ireland missed out on four tournaments, and Keane, Duff, Given and Dunne stuck at it, kept plugging away through the thin times, until finally arriving back at the glorious thick end with qualification to Euro 2012.

It was a thin time.

Shatner, I later learnt, was having a thin time.

"High officials" have never had such a thin time.

If you can't manage a little rough-and-tumble you will have a thin time of it.

Widows had a thin time of it in countries that adopted the post-revolution Napoleonic code, and still do in southern Europe.