It's eating people want to see in these lean times.

However, both have encountered lean times in more recent years.

The 1960s and 70s were lean times for black actors.

"He has been going through those set aside for lean times, and there are but a few thousand left."

But when you go back and look to see what happened earlier, it was still a pretty lean time.

The boss told them it was not personal, just a lean time for the company, she said.

Despite the lean times, two other major food companies are planning to enter the business.

"We would not have been able to do this in the lean times," he said.

But after seven years of budget surplus, we face some lean times.

There were a lot of lean times in those first few years on their own.

Now, she has a chance to make up for another difficult time in her past.

Before we had a difficult time and now life is getting better.

Then again, he was having a difficult time thinking at all.

He became my chief of staff at a difficult time.

She and I are having a bit of a difficult time at the moment.

He is just the person we need in these difficult times.

We were all going through a difficult time in our lives.

But many groups have had a far more difficult time.

They have been particularly important during recent difficult economic times.

Told them my father was going through a difficult time.