= run down, peter out, run + short (of), run out, go out of + print, sell out, dry up, run out of
Ex: A closed system will be subject to entropy -- the tendency for a system to run down through the loss of differentiation
Ex: Press demands for information soon petered out but enquiries from the general public continued for many months
Ex: 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
Ex: He continued writing for two years until his ink ran out
Ex: 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
Ex: 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
Ex: The article 'Slim chance for ethnic funding' explains how funding for library projects to provide assistance to ethnic minorities has almost dried up
Ex: The philosophy of science lacks a time dimension and seems to have run out of language to cope with all the abstractions needed