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He had the same general good looks and rather lean face.
She had never known a lean day in her life.
But the lean years were thought to be almost over.
He has had a couple of lean years for him.
The long hard months had left him lean and strong.
But that made her lean back and out even more.
The lean man asked me how long I thought we'd been at it.
Even through the lean years of the 60's and 70's, they were with us.
There were a lot of lean times in those first few years on their own.
The building is interesting and on a bit of a lean.
After the lean war years, people wanted a bit of fun.
I take a step back and lean way forward, try again.
But when you go back and look to see what happened earlier, it was still a pretty lean time.
"We would not have been able to do this in the lean times," he said.
Nothing came along immediately and ahead were a couple of lean years.
But war seems to have passed by this lean old man.
I had a working wife and a lot of experience living on lean income.
He immediately saw a long, lean body close to the ground.
On his right shoulder was the guy with the lean face.
We run lean, and need to for a lot of reasons.
He has a full sound with a long lean style of playing.
I needed a way to make some money, see Faith and me through the lean years.
He is a lean man in his late 20's or early 30's when the story starts.
All he had to do was lean in and shoot.
Like the rest of them, he had grown very lean.