| Insects have developed wings to help them find a mate and for mayflies the race to reproduce becomes a race against time. |
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| It is facing a race against time, though, to secure the legislation early enough to allow local authorities to prepare for the June 10 elections. |
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| It's a race against time to stabilize their government before public support, which is alarmingly eroding, starts to hemorrhage away altogether. |
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| Their first target in the race against time is the Herdwick breed of sheep which are nearly all in the Lake District. |
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| However, firefighters are facing a race against time with forecasters predicting that high temperatures and strong winds would return today. |
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| It's a harsh countryside by anyone's standards, and for some eight million people estimated to be at risk from drought and famine in the region, it is now a race against time. |
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| At that time, she faced a race against time to find a bone marrow donor who matched her rare blood type, after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia. |
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| Yet, this race against time and for increased efficiency does have certain repercussions on the environment. |
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| Spring fertilizer season is always a race against time, and 2009 will take that to an extreme. |
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| It was always known that recovery of the full core, expected to be about 220 m, was a race against time. |
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| But with winter less than a month away, we are now in a race against time, and there is a danger of a second humanitarian drama. |
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| We were in a race against time as the number of atrocities grew by the hour. |
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| The Americans have to race against time, acting on four-year runs, whereas the North Koreans act on a much longer time frame. |
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| Now, they're in a race against time to keep all these people alive. |
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| The EU and the IMF faced a race against time in their efforts to put together a rescue package for Greece. |
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| An effective high comfort product for remaining young, inhibiting the ageing process and reclaiming a few years in the race against time. |
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| There was a race against time and we are now late in dealing with the outbreak of the virus. |
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| And it will kill the future unless we do more to fight it, for we are in a race against time. |
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| It may well be that we are in a race against time where this issue is concerned. |
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| Council chiefs know they face a multi-million-pound race against time to bring their housing stock into line with the Government's Decent Home Standard. |
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| Yorkshire League groundsmen face another race against time this year, after this week's deluge threatened to wash out the first games of the new millennium. |
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| Every year, after the snow melts in the mountainous regions on the border, there is a race against time to see which nation takes charge of the heights near the border. |
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| But generally, it was a race against time to get the Merlot harvest in before it rotted, followed quickly by some rapidly deteriorating Cabernet Francs around 25th. |
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| A philosopher like P. Sansot may sing the praises of slowness and encourage us not to let ourselves be devoured by the race against time characteristic of modern life, but his book has been only moderately successful. |
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| Colleagues, we are in a race against time. |
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| With two years and eight months remaining, the race against time is on. |
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| If we are to achieve anything meaningful in this race against time, we must combine our efforts and not allow ourselves to be held back by such artificial walls. |
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| Given the race against time, President Mbeki was only able to meet briefly with the President, the Prime Minister and members of the Council of Ministers. |
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| This is not so much a race against each other as a race against time. |
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| In the race against time to help the people of Haiti, the restoration of telecommunications services is crucial for coordinating teams on the ground. |
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| Researchers are in a race against time, with the advanced age of those who recall the musical traditions lending a sense of urgency to the project. |
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| Watchmaking and extreme sport are kindred fields where mastery and intensity are daily requirements, and where innovation and technological skill meet in a tight race against time. |
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| To make matters worse, the Super Sopper stopped working and after that it was a race against time to get the ground ready for play. |
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| Scottish curler Eve Muirhead was left facing a race against time to make the first European Tour event of the season after being stung by a wasp. |
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| In a race against time, Lara must use her wit and skill to reimprison Set and save the world from Armageddon. |
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| While he glad-hands politicians around Europe a frantic race against time is underway in northern Pakistan to save tens of thousands of people threatened by the floods. |
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| Arctic explorer Conrad Dickinson has less than three weeks to go in his race against time to reach the geographic North Pole with almost 200 miles still to cover. |
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