Sentence examples for has been running flat from inspiring English sources
Despite the talk of a future powered by the wind, the sun and the atom, Drax has been running flat out for months and is currently generating 7% of Britain's total electricity needs.Indeed, coal power is back in fashion to a surprising extent.
"Thompson will be competing against three guys who have been running flat out for months and working their tails off for well over a year," Mr. Fabrizio said.
The Fleece in Bristol, which has been running for 32 years, feared "a deluge of complaints" after developers decided to convert a neighbouring office block into flats.
"That has opened up an opportunity for us and I'm very pleased to say that for the last six weeks our operations have been running absolutely flat out," Rio Tinto's iron ore chief executive Sam Walsh told a mining conference in Canberra on Tuesday.
For some time, supplies of crude oil have been rising, and refineries in the United States have been running nearly flat-out.
Its largest competitors, Google (for a flat fee of $80) and Amazon (for $80 plus additional transfer costs), have been running a similar service for a while now.
American refineries have also been running flat out this summer to meet demand, and some half a dozen big plants have suffered breakdowns, causing tightness in downstream markets, for petrol and so forth.
"It doesn't matter what course you're running — flat, fast course, whatever — you have to respect the marathon.
Second quarter we're running flat, which is OK but not the kind of increases we've had for the past three years.
Refineries are running flat out.
