This was intermingled with some lean patches and struggles with injury.

Berdych though he had struck a lean patch in the beginning of year 2011 is in full form again.

However, after a lean patch in the late 1990s, Ravichandran is said to have made amends to this and churned out quickies.

It kept him occupied and brought a bit of money in, but not much, because fairs were going through a lean patch, too.

And in fact several were empty, the result of the community going through a lean patch with recruits.

He went through a lean patch that saw his strike rate being considerably low.

In fact, of course, they offer no such thing: there have been lean years there, and even lean patches last winter.

Khan seems to be in a lean patch in recent times.

Where possible build savings, as these may be needed to tide you over a lean patch.

He had gone through a lean patch, but in the end resilience turned things in his favor.