They can also store food for themselves, and have enough money to buy food if they need to during the lean season.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

These included a low-fat diet, a low-carb diet and a Mediterranean diet, which is made up of fruits,vegetables, lean proteins,olive oil and nuts.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

Then they have to pay high prices to buy food for themselves during the "lean season,"

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Ryan's skin is weathered. He's got creases in his neck and his canvas work pants seem to hang on his lean frame.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Most of the tracks lean toward folk, including this duet the duo recorded with fellow Texan Jakob Dylan, "See You In The Spring."

VOA: standard.2010.05.23

"The Mediterranean diet is very rich in vegetables and fruits and whole grains, lean meats and poultry, a lot of Omega 3 rich fish."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Lean Kha was a soldier with the communist Khmer Rouge in the early 1980s and admits he killed wildlife for food and trade, including 14 tigers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

So we lean more toward the message than doing a Shrek parody of it."

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

I'm going to lean up against you. You lean up against me.

VOA: standard.other

we're going to lean on each other.' And that's what we've done here the last four years and this is the culmination of all that belief and that faith."

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

But it's got to be one that's realistically designed to weather this storm and to emerge at the other end much more lean,mean and competitive than it currently is."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats and fish are expensive.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

"I saw all these ships waiting out there,I am guessing, waiting their turns to load and unload the cargo, so,I said,Why do the ships come into the harbor?" Why not have the harbor go out there and bring the goods in?'" Researchers describe the mobile harbor as a lean, light system for unloading container ships even if the coastal area is too shallow for them to dock.

VOA: standard.2010.01.04