running-down time

  • 101down to the wire — {adj.}, {slang} 1. Running out of time, nearing a deadline. * /Bob is down to the wire on his project./ 2. Being financially almost broke, being very low on cash or other funds. * /We can t afford going to a restaurant tonight we re really down… …

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  • 102down to the wire — {adj.}, {slang} 1. Running out of time, nearing a deadline. * /Bob is down to the wire on his project./ 2. Being financially almost broke, being very low on cash or other funds. * /We can t afford going to a restaurant tonight we re really down… …

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  • 103down\ to\ the\ wire — adj slang 1. Running out of time, nearing a deadline. Bob is down to the wire on his project. 2. Being financially almost broke, being very low on cash or other funds. We can t afford going to a restaurant tonight we re really down to the wire! …

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  • 104Time Has Come Today (Grey's Anatomy) — Infobox Television episode | Title = Time Has Come Today Series = Grey s Anatomy Season = 3 Episode = 1 Guests = Chris O Donnell (Dr. Finn Dandridge); Loretta Devine (Adele Webber); Jessica Tuck (Shannon s Mom); Sarah Utterback (Nurse Olivia… …

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  • 105run down — phrasal verb Word forms run down : present tense I/you/we/they run down he/she/it runs down present participle running down past tense ran down past participle run down 1) [transitive] to hit someone with your car and injure or kill them be/get… …

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  • 106run down someone — run down (someone/something) 1. to search for and find someone or something. We spend a lot of money each year running down students who are out of school illegally. The software giant spent months running down bugs in the program and fixing them …

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  • 107run down something — run down (someone/something) 1. to search for and find someone or something. We spend a lot of money each year running down students who are out of school illegally. The software giant spent months running down bugs in the program and fixing them …

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  • 108run down — (someone/something) 1. to search for and find someone or something. We spend a lot of money each year running down students who are out of school illegally. The software giant spent months running down bugs in the program and fixing them. The… …

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  • 109up time — n. the time when a computer is running. (Compare this with down time.) D You’ll get the maximum up time with this machine. □ On some systems the down time is longer than the up time …

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  • 110Mean time to recovery — For other uses, see MTTR (disambiguation). Mean time to recovery (MTTR)[1][2] is the average time that a device will take to recover from any failure. Examples of such devices range from self resetting fuses (where the MTTR would be very short,… …

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