1, There were rich pickings to be had from the stock market.

2, Traditional hiding places are easy pickings for experienced burglars.

3, There are easy pickings for thieves at these big outdoor concerts.

4, He promised us rich pickings if we bought the shares immediately.

5, There are rich pickings to be had by investing in this sort of company.

6, It would have yielded particularly rich pickings.

7, Soaring inflation means lean pickings for the majority.

8, Not the richest of pickings, usually left to the fly-by-night minicabs.

9, His total pickings for the campaign must have been every soldier's dream.

10, He says it's unfortunately easy pickings so it's on the increase.

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12, He was obviously getting fat on his pickings, whatever his game was.

13, A satirist, you feel, would find rich pickings under such circumstances, and indeed Wang Shuo does just that.

14, Meager pickings in the industry have provided the back-drop to increasing consolidation.

15, Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike.

16, That spells reasonable pickings for the armies of poor people hunting the empties.

17, What a life, what fun, what pickings were there here!

18, Or alternatively, in the off-season when pickings are slim and no one is buying.

19, The strike affecting the country's largest airline is producing easy pickings for smaller companies.

20, Buyers who have waited for bargains at the end of the year will find slim pickings.

21, The street-sellers are lured to the town by the rich/easy pickings that are to be had from foreign tourists.

22, Companies are put off investing in poor areas because of the meagre pickings to be had.

23, So - if only they can overcome the obvious difficulties, inter-tidal creatures find rich pickings.

24, Or life may be regarded as a battlefield fit for conquerors, with rich pickings for the strong.

25, The music that's finally being aired, fifty years on. Easy pickings.

26, Newley occasionally went there with clients from whom he expected rich pickings.

27, They have destroyed the city on us and become rich on the pickings.

28, Gloucester showed no desire to unleash a northern invasion of the south, although a few northerners did receive minor pickings there.

29, They happened at every siege; they have left rich and often still untouched pickings for the determined detectorist.

30, This one is a corsair from the Basilisk Islands who believed the Rhoyne would offer richer pickings than the Summer Sea.

1, There were rich pickings to be had from the stock market.

31, Often there are slim pickings by the time that last orientation session rolls around.

32, Other rich pickings, including season ticket sales, are expected to exceed last year's ￡5m.

33, SPAIN during the second world war offers rich pickings for spy writers.

34, The pickings were easy.

35, There were only slim pickings to be made at the fair.

36, On the other side, some professional women found Valley pickings slim.