agotar
exhaust ; deplete.
The potential areas of application of PRECIS are far from being exhausted.
This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
agotar el espacio
run out of + space
Many university and state libraries are running out of space and research libraries have a serious conservation problem.
agotar el presupuesto
drain + budget
By accentuating administrative strengths, archivists can facilitate preservation implementation without draining their budget.
agotar + Posesivo + vida útil
run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life
Blair is accused of presiding over a 'fag-end' government, one that is rapidly running towards the end of its useful life.
agotarse
run down
peter out
run + short (of)
run out
go out of + print
sell out
dry up
run out of
run + dry
be all gone
A closed system will be subject to entropy - the tendency for a system to run down through the loss of differentiation.
Press demands for information soon petered out but enquiries from the general public continued for many months.
The arguments are well known but we must realise that there was a very real fear that society would run short of manual labour = Los argumentos son bien conocidos pero debemos darnos cuenta de que había existía un miedo real de que la sociedad se quedase sin mano de obra.
He continued writing for two years until his ink ran out.
Zilg claims that his book 'Du Pont: Behind the nylon Curtain', which is highly critical of Du Pont, was allowed to go out of print prematurely as a direct result of pressure being brought to bear on the publisher by Du Pont.
The first edition was quickly sold out, and I decided to revise it in the light of comments by colleagues and reviewers, and of developments in my own thinking.
The article 'Slim chance for ethnic funding' explains how funding for library projects to provide assistance to ethnic minorities has almost dried up.
The philosophy of science lacks a time dimension and seems to have run out of language to cope with all the abstractions needed.
So stop fretting that UK unemployment is rising as the tax burden soars, consumers stop spending and North Sea oil runs dry.
The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
agotarse el tiempo
time + run out
If time is running out, do not feel obliged to read them from cover to cover.
