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For all of them, it is a race against time.

It looks as if my whole life is a race against time.

It's become a race against time and we are not doing well.

Will they make it in what has now become a race against time?

Thus once more was I caught in another race against time.

For he knew that this was a race against time.

It would be a race against time from this end, too.

From that moment on, it becomes a race against time for them.

It could be done, though they were racing against time.

For many municipalities, their plan may be a race against time.

All his life he was racing against time to reach it.

It would start him on an aerial race against time!

But such an effort would have been a race against time."

Instead it was a race against time to get there before the sun went down over Manhattan.

So we are engaged in a genuine race against time.

"We're in a race against time to win the trust and confidence of the people."

Already there have been 74 000 deaths and getting aid to those in need is a race against time.

That makes the next week a high-stakes race against time.

But they were also in a race against time.

Often a race against time, such programs can generate much excitement.

As the agencies sought to work out a plan, they were racing against time.

It had been a race against time, and they had lost.

It was going to be a race against time.

Three of the last four batsmen were run out in what had by now become a race against time.

That means the industry, in a way, is in a race against time.

I was working against time and just barely got it right.

We talked for an hour, making lists of work against time available.

We're working against time and if you're going to go ahead with this we'd have to do it immediately."

And then he changed the subject as though he worked against time.

They worked against time, trying not to look at the oxygen gauges.

I'm down here working against time - you know how it is, Leo?"

"I seemed always to be working against time."

"Tomorrow," he shouted, and went on to the glimmer of light where Willis was working against time.

We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time.

"We're working against time and against a condition you aren't going to like," Drake said.

"You're working against time and energy," he said.

They were working against time, but on Thorvald's part with practiced efficiency.

But they were, the Lensmen knew, working against time.

Ken Mallory began the operation, working against time.

If the Seabees had been working against time from the start of the project, they now raced with disaster.

The scientists of the project, working against time, scramble to re-calibrate their experiment for Cornelius.

You see I'm working against time, Ed, you understand, and every minute counts.

"I think," said Mason, "that this is another case where I'm going to be working against time.

We'll be working against time.

I must work against time.

Right now we're working against time."

We are working against time."

Canfield felt he was working against time.

"We're working against time," Mason reminded him.

Professor Legge was working against time.

As I have said, this is a battle against time.

In each case, the police and the families are battling against time.

Doctors battle against time to replace it with an artificial one.

For the cartoonists, it's a daily battle against time, to create work that captures the imagination.

Probably even hedonism has more going for it than the totally fruitless and expensive battle against time.

The mountain of studies that must be mastered before that distant date assumes daunting proportions and you see nothing but a losing battle against time.

The only way to save him is a heart transplant, a battle against time as the body can only survive so long on an artificial heart.

Drawn from several BNFL departments, this group fought and won a battle against time to hit the tightest of deadlines.

And sometimes the men of Zeenar listened to the strange tales that the old Alattans told of the years when they made battle against Time.

His gibing tones indicated that he had foreseen this outcome; that his fight against surpassing numbers had been a battle against time.

Opening a new front in its legal battle against Time Warner Inc., U S West sought yesterday to block Time Warner's recent restructuring.

Just the effort of getting the right map opened inside a cramped command vehicle was a battle against time and space, and eighty kilometers of front made for too many tactical maps.

Now Mr. Bass needs their help in a battle against time and the forces of evil that threaten the Mycetians, Mr. Bass and, finally, David.

Locked in a battle against time, racing against the efficiency of the Borg, his fingers stabbed furiously at the panel before him as he entered the code to release the maglock.

The old man's story is full of obscure names and details that may well be factual; it is also rather touching, as the aging Coppi gradually loses his quixotic battle against time.

But more important than that, the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour.

Whether King, Fox or Showtime officials wanted to admit it, going to Fox produced another bizarre chapter in King's battle against Time Warner Sports, TVKO's parent.

AS president of Liberty Cable, Peter O. Price spent five years in the 1990's waging a David-and-Goliath battle against Time Warner for cable television customers in Manhattan.

Battle Against Officials For the most vulnerable mobile home owners, the struggle to hang on to the roof over their heads is a battle against time and the elements - as well as some local officials.

But Mr. Bennett's latest campaign - against MCA Inc. and its corporate overlord, Edgar Bronfman Jr. - is radically different from his protracted battle against Time Warner Inc. last year.

The Taylor Report on crowd safety, which came in the wake of the Hillsborough Disaster, left many clubs with archaic stadiums facing an uncertain future as they battled against time and their balance-sheets in an attempt to meet safety regulations and secure all-seater facilities.

ALTHOUGH the Walt Disney Company received some relief from the Federal Communications Commission in its battle against Time Warner over ABC programming, Disney has taken its fight to another important arena: the cities and towns across America that control local cable franchises.