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run low (or short)1Become depleted: supplies had run short...- However, while water and medical supplies are running short in some areas stockpiling means that food is not yet generally scarce.
- Cod supplies have been running short because of fishing restrictions imposed in the North Sea in a bid to repopulate depleted stocks.
- He predicts that a famine affecting up to 15 million of his people will hit next spring because the twice-yearly rains have largely failed and home-produced food supplies are already running low.
1.1Have too little of something: we’re running short of time...- The aircraft flew over the Atlantic but weather conditions deteriorated and by the time the squadron reached the English coast at dawn, they were running short of fuel.
- We were running short of time, and ominous clouds were massing in the sky, but we couldn't resist stepping inside the old church.
- Doctors said they were running short of anesthetics and medical equipment.
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