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lean time

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meanings of leanand time


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lean
adjective
uk /liːn/ us /liːn/
Lean meat has ...
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time
noun
uk /taɪm/ us /taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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Examples of lean time


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We felt that when farmers were having a leantime, expenditure on lime would suffer first.
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Machine tools, which are the most sensitive barometer, are having a pretty leantime.
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Without the repertory theatre the living theatre in this country will have a leantime.
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The producers of fat cattle have had a very leantime!
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The industry is unquestionably going through a leantime.
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In recent years they have suffered from a very leantime.
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I do not think that "a leantime" is the correct expression.
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Sections of the steel and iron industry arc having a very leantime indeed.
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I can only say, from my own experience, that farmers have had a leantime.
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The herring industry went through a very leantime between the wars.
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It appeared, before the big re-armament programme was introduced, that shipbuilding would enter once more on a leantime.
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They must also instruct the surveyors to use their utmost discretion and understanding in the early stages, especially while the industry is going through such a leantime.
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Many dock workers are having a very leantime, and many are taking any opportunity which presents itself of leaving the industry.
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I think most people would agree that, having had a very leantime for many years, they should be allowed to make reasonable profits.
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London is going through a very leantime at present.
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The small builder, like the small painter and carpenter in the village, has had a pretty leantime, some have disappeared.
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It is true that the shipbuilders at present are going through a very leantime, but they are facing their troubles with courage and imagination.
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I am sure that this is so, from talking to my neighbours and to machinery salesmen, who are having a pretty leantime now.
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The shipbuilding and ship-repairing industries had a leantime for the best part of a generation, except during the war years.
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The writer then goes on to say that he had rather a leantime during the war, but that he is now getting rent in respect of these flats.
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