"fighting against time" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone is doing their best to accomplish a task within a finite and limited period of time. For example: "I'm trying my best to finish this project, but I feel like I'm fighting against time to get it done before the deadline."
I know we are fighting against time".
He's fighting against time because he hasn't had that experience".
But now Pettitte, like Clemens, is fighting against time in an effort to come back.
Elderly and frail, they are fighting against time and indifference to gain the recognition and compensation they believe should be theirs.
Tomah, who's among the youngest people fluent in Passamaquoddy, described himself as "one of the last language speakers, fighting against time". In the past year, he has joined Soctomah in the task of transcribing the wax-cylinder recordings.
Instead, Hendrickson finds herself fighting against time in Sochi.
Even so, he couldn't as he was fighting against a two times world champion.
"I hope that with my work I've delivered some from a mysterious malady over which they felt they had no control, which felt like an instinctual urge that they could not deny or understand, at the same time fighting against it mightily," Dr. Socarides said in a 1995 interview in The New York Times.
When you take a look at the many elements fighting against us at all times, you might just find it's time to give yourself a break.
It's telling that Sanders spoke about his time fighting against housing discrimination in Chicago, and that it's possible he will face a president in 2020 who got wealthy off perpetrating housing discrimination.
In an interview reported by Agence France-Presse while he was on the set of his latest film, "Magic Mirror," he said, "I am fighting against a lack of time".
