• Better yet, a three-minute quick charge from a dead battery will yield up to an hour of run-time in a pinch.

    ENGADGET

  • The Chalke Valley Stores will be run by a full-time manager and up to 70 volunteers.

    BBC: Post office to open in Wiltshire village church

  • McGeady's stuttering run-up allowed him a fraction of additional time to place the spot-kick and, though McGregor got a hand to it, his low kick found the net to bring the visitors right back into the game.

    BBC: Rangers 2-1 Celtic

  • The number of company failures fell by even more - 185 went bust in the run up to Christmas - down by a third compared with the same time in 2011.

    BBC: Sharp fall in Scots bankruptcies

  • By putting up huge numbers annually while chasing the all-time home run record, Rodriguez would singularly draw extra fans and pump up local TV ratings for the team lucky enough to get him.

    FORBES: Why A-Rod's Not Worth It

  • Mess up--or just run out of time--and your e-mail will ferment in your mailbox, awaiting you in a more lucid moment.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In addition, United cut flight times in 2011 after a big run-up in 2008 and 2009, but added time to former Continental Airlines flights.

    WSJ: Why Airlines Are Shrinking Flight Times

  • Critics including the NYAG in this case say class-action firms spend far too much time reviewing documents, knowing they can submit the hours run up by low-paid contract attorneys at a substantial markup.

    FORBES: Judge Slams Contract-Attorney Charges In Madoff Feeder Fund Case

  • The core business emerged in a strong position just in time for the most recent run-up.

    FORBES: David Rubenstein And The Carlyle Group: The Kings Of Capital

  • British skeleton's performance director, Andi Schmid, said before the Games that a lack of track time for athletes in the run-up to the Games had increased the risk of accidents.

    BBC: Olympic luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dies after crash

  • Not entirely sure that in the run-up to the 2010 campaign, they spent a lot of time talking to seniors about raising their out-of-pocket costs on medical care and prescription drugs or talking about adding a couple of hundred billion dollars to the deficit.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Bristol-Myers, up 20 percent, was a home run along with Time Warner.

    FORBES: Don't Fight The Fed, The Bull Market Ain't Dead

  • But the couple are said to want to spend time together as husband and wife in the run-up to Christmas and settle down in their north Wales home, near to where William is based at RAF Valley on Anglesey.

    BBC: Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to cut down royal duties

  • For me, of course, it was a pleasure to meet the President of the United States, President Obama, for the first time here in the Oval Office in the run-up, indeed, to the NATO summit in the beginning of April, so less than two weeks away in Strasbourg and Kehl, in France and Germany -- in the heart of Europe, by the way, which is an interesting place to celebrate NATO's 60th anniversary.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Meets with NATO Secretary General

  • Each time contracts come up for renewal--they run for four to eight years--the price of official sponsorship goes up.

    FORBES: Gold Medal For Brand Awareness

  • And for all Arsenal's pretty passing and intricate patterns in the second half, it was Chelsea who applied the killer blow five minutes from time when Alex concluded a fast bowler's run-up with a true touch of Brazil as he lashed a long-range free-kick high beyond Lukasz Fabianski.

    BBC: Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal

  • And the employer's organisation, the CBI, said last week that sales in the run-up to Christmas had been slower than a year ago, for the first time in 10 years.

    BBC: Dixons confirms Christmas fears

  • Spurs were given a lifeline when Jermaine Jenas produced a surging run, found Bentley and his pass teed-up Campbell, who calmly slotted in first time with his right foot from an acute angle on the edge of the area.

    BBC: Fulham 2-1 Tottenham

  • In the run-up to this deal, Anheuser itself announced plans to cut about 1, 000 full-time workers.

    BBC: The Brazilian recipe for brewing success

  • Three minutes before the break, Mick Monaghan's run set up Myler for a second, Brett Hodgson landing a second successive conversion to reduce the half-time deficit to six points.

    BBC: Warrington 24-44 Wigan

  • Leeds extended their tenuous half-time lead four minutes into the second half when a barnstorming run from centre Keith Senior opened up the Warrington defence for Webb to take a return pass and score.

    BBC: Leeds Rhinos 26-16 Warrington Wolves

  • It is the first time that an Irish bank has sued an ex-auditor over its conduct in the run-up to the financial crisis.

    BBC: Anglo Irish bank

  • Nevertheless, the next time you run up some legal bills, consider the value you got and decide like many self-made millionaires, what you should pay?

    FORBES: When Are Legal Fees Voluntary?

  • This would entail passing the same bill, a second time, in the 2013-14 session, opening up the prospect of a re-run of this week's festivities.

    BBC: Farewell, Lords reform?

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