Some examples and use cases from the internet:

Some examples and use cases from the internet:

• The proposal to shorten Strasbourg sessions to four days would have meant that MEPs could have been back in their constituencies for longer periods meeting groups, individuals and organisations and getting across the message about what we do here in Strasbourg and Brussels.
• I had prepared a longer version of my speech but, as time is getting on, I will shorten it as much as possible.
• I knew the odds of him getting hit by a car or contracting an airborne disease could shorten his life by 42.556%.

• Guess they're getting short of men!
• As the deadline approached, Serrat would check in more often, reminding us that our time was getting short.
• I need two freight cars to take the cattle to the slaughterhouse, we are getting short on fodder so I'll have to sell a few heifers.
• Time is getting short and we've got a graduate.
• Mr President, time is now getting short for completion of the talks on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
• Time is getting short, but I have a plan.
• Time's getting short.
• I was really getting short on time.