21.   But these were lean times and the Knicks resembled a skeletal unit.

22.   Chiseling holes in trees, the birds build a granary in which to store acorns that can get them through lean times.

23.   During lean times, she said, her family ate pastry made with the solidified fat from the surface of chicken broth.

24.   During lean times no individual service has enough to do the job and eventually all become as hollow and limp as a used straw.

25.   Furthermore, human bodies are programmed to put fat in storage, saving it for energy in lean times, which are rare these days.

26.   Given the lean times, broadcasters are paying close attention to the question of how to get the most value out of their news sections.

27.   He can afford to chuckle as he has left those lean times behind.

28.   He grimaces over electricity bills, counts pennies for school uniforms and grows corn in his garden for lean times.

29.   He puts his ideas down as poetry in a big book that has taken him from the lean times to the rich ones.

30.   I was a fair hand with a rod and reel, but if my casting had to bring in dinner, there would have been some lean times.