That gave Mr. Soderbergh a perilously short eight months to shoot and edit the film before its Dec. 10 release date.

By this week, the fighting had blocked access in and out of Jaffna, leaving it perilously short of food staples.

Bolan wasn't disgruntled by that fact, but it reminded him that he was running perilously short of time.

Time was perilously short.

After three weeks in pursuit of the king, Forbes' rations were running perilously short.

You don't have to be Camille Paglia to recognise that the step from writer to reader is perilously short.

Some entrances have perilously short and/or sharp ramps; some entrances even have stop signs, with no merge lane whatsoever; this leads to some dangerous entrances onto the highway.

Its newspaper industry isn't national and is often perilously short on precise market comparisons.

Lord Kian's face took on a grim look at Silverleaf s words, for the time was perilously short, and they were yet trapped.

Mr President, if I could echo other colleagues from all parties and indeed national groups who have said that the time for talking is now perilously short.