Sentence examples for races against time from inspiring English sources

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races against time

noun

Plural of race against time

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He races against time and nature in a desperate bid to save his own life.

The watercolourist takes risks, reacts like a fighter-pilot to changes in front of him, and races against time, light and the weather.

Galleries will take 50% plus 17.5%% value-added tax, which means that watercolourists must sell around 40 paintings a year to scratch a living, or combine their art with other jobs.The watercolourist races against time, light and the weather.

The action reaches a climax as Marco races against time to the convention centre to stop Shaw from carrying out an assassination of the presidential nominee, which would place Iselin ("the Manchurian Candidate") in line to become president.

Instead his sloppily executed film plays like a car commercial (an American F.B.I. agent races against time and traffic to deliver the ransom) and a military-recruitment promo (a helicopter-borne special-ops team prepares for damage control).

Filmed in a music-video style, with split screens, rapid montage, animation and jump cuts, the movie follows the red-haired, unflappably determined title character as she races against time to save her lover who has 20 minutes to deliver 100,000 Deutsche marks that he lost on the subway to his murderous boss.

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"We are racing against time," he says.

We're in a race against time".

Yet we are truly racing against time.

It was a race against time.

They are racing against time.

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