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race against time |
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a race against time an attempt to do something when there is little time to do it. It was a race against time as staff members tried to keep the struggling company open. Usage notes: sometimes used as a verb phrase: The villagers raced against time to protect their town against the flood. |
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Every passage of a ship of yesterday, whose yards were braced round eagerly the very moment the pilot, with his pockets full of letters, had got over the side, was like a race - a race against time, against an ideal standard of achievement outstripping the expectations of common men. |
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