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What it’s like to stare at a painting for a full hour | Learn the phrasal verb ‘run out’

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I Am Running Out of Time

Imagine you're taking a test, and the test is 100 questions. You've finished 95 of them, and you have five questions left. The test was three hours, but now you've only got ten minutes until the end. Time is running out. It's moving toward zero, and we are close to the end. In both these examples, we say, i am running out, or we are running out, to describe the sensation we get when what we have is moving toward zero. We can also use this in the past tense: What happens if you have guests in your house and everyone takes a hot shower in the morning? The last person has to take a cold shower, or

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