"lean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This work was executed during the lean months in winter 1967/8.
- We've decided to take three thousand each, and leave the rest in the firm, for the inevitable lean months ahead.
- "It's particularly tough to make it through the lean months of January and February," he said.
- Water scarcity in the lean months is the main reason for dwindling activities on the hill at present times.
- There is no thought even for the lean months - the winter or whatever.
- Usually, a boat makes enough money in the summer to cover the lean months after Christmas.
- Even so, there were lean months and years between 1976 and 1986.
- He could not afford to, and he knew it, especially with the lean months of summer staring him in the face.
- With William's early retirement package to see them through the lean months, they had launched into the bed-and-breakfast business.
- January can be a lean month for new music.
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