Examples of 'lean years' in a sentence

Meaning of "lean years"

Lean years: Refers to periods of time characterized by financial difficulty, scarcity, or a lack of resources

How to use "lean years" in a sentence

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These are lean years for the world.
More than a few very lean years.
The lean years had changed matters.
Helped us through the lean years.
Those were the lean years of our marriage.
Seven fat years and seven lean years.
Seven lean years shall be followed by seven fat.
We have had seven lean years.
There have been lean years and there have been exceptional years.
Through the good or lean years.
There have been lean years and amazing years.
There are good years and there are lean years.
Then the lean years came.
Park turns profitable after four lean years.
After two lean years the tempo of privatisation has again risen.

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And there will be lean years.
Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas.
I understand there were some pretty lean years.
It will take a few lean years to get past his past behavior.
I met him during my lean years.
It 's God 's will that the lean years will be followed by the fat years.
It operates as a kind of insurance policy against lean years.
Through the good or lean years All the way.
Is the only reason it made it through the lean years.
All that most will remember is eight lean years under President Barack Obama.
A salvation of a nation from years of famine and lean years.
You know, these are lean years for the world.
What do you think of all those lean years.
But as the Good Book says, seven lean years shall be followed by seven fat.
Seems government subsidies carried him through a number of lean years.
May be some lean years.
The system has often been likened to an insurance policy against lean years.
Anything drastic, as you very well know, means lean years before we reap any reward.
It was so much more than she had ever expected after those long, lean years.
And above all, it proves that the lean years are finished at Chevrolet.
Farmers know that they have good years and lean years.
The 1990s were lean years for him as a performer and recording artist.
Tell about the good and lean years.
He also had them store extra food for the lean years.
O'Malley the lean years.
After all, your magazine was very kind to Franklin and Ferris during our lean years.
Hey! Hey! Then the lean years came.
After all, your magazine was kind to us during our lean years.
It has been seven lean years.
Yeah, this money gives us a cushion to make it through the lean years.
They made important contributions to commerce in the lean years following the war.
Raised three children, kept this house together through the lean years.
Until King Richard recovered power Chaucer had lean years to undergo.
There will be fat years And there will be lean years.
Seven fat years, seven lean years.

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