In areas of low rain and thin soil, the peasants remain poor.
A thin soil had been slowly building up on the M4 for a couple of generations.
He looked at the stony ground and the thin soil.
Not much, but we never had to scratch in thin soil to raise our daily bread.
If you garden on thin, poor soil, grow something else.
The resulting short growing season is made even shorter by the thin soil.
He tried to grasp a bush, but its roots ripped out of the thin soil.
When the grazing stopped, the landscape didn't grow to, because of the thin soil.
The thin soil that covers the forest floor is easily washed away.
Our mountain lands had thin soil, and they gave us nothing more than just a living until we came west.
