Sentence examples of "скудный" in Russian with translation "lean"

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Сегодня для администрации настали более скудные времена. Today, the administration is facing leaner times.
Иосиф предсказал, что наступит семь лет изобилия, с обильными урожаями из-за разлива Нила, а затем семь скудных лет, с голодом в результате засухи. Joseph prophesied that there would come seven years of plenty, with abundant harvests from an overflowing Nile, followed by seven lean years, with famine resulting from drought.
Обама должен взять инициативу в свои руки и на встрече в Копенгагене в следующем году поставить в центр внимания не раздутые субсиди в неэффективные технологии, а скудные инвестиции в будущие достижения. Obama should seize the initiative and make the meeting in Copenhagen next year not about bloated subsidies for inefficient technologies, but about lean investments in future breakthroughs.
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