Sentence examples for started to run down from inspiring English sources

"But when the tour started to run down, suddenly I realized I had nothing to say.

Finally the clock started to run down again: three … two … one.

Then some of the men started to run down the slope and I joined in as well.

The Conservative government started to run down the basic state pension by cutting its link to earnings.

And, when it started to run down, the Obama Administration, rather than pushing for more help for the economy, briefly embraced the arguments for austerity.

Yet this was a large comprehensive catering primarily for the vast Ringland council estate that, once the 1960s boom had run its course and Llanwern steelworks started to run down in the Thatcher era, became a byword for social deprivation and worklessness, crime and drugs.

And then the clock starts to run down.

He recalls the inauguration in 1976 - the parade was starting to run down and an aide came over to him and said, "Let's go inside".

Then those further ahead of me suddenly broke into a gallop, starting to run down the unfathomably emptying corridor ahead of them.

The Bank has announced that it would wait until official interest rates hit 2% before it starts to run down its £375bn stock of bonds bought under the quantitative easing programme that boosted the money supply when growth was weak.

Strategically, do we want an industry as important as nuclear power to be controlled from another country at a time when our own reserves of oil and gas are starting to run down and when supplies of gas will increasingly come from from Siberia and oil from the Middle East?