running time

noun

1. Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film:

   The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of running time¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Models that can shred more at once also have more powerful motors with longer running times.

From Popular-Science

A long running time, high capacity, and multimedia abilities work in offices where high volumes of sensitive information go to die.

From Popular-Science

It’s a madcap experiment careening through its exhausting running time with all the recklessness of a cartoon villain piloting a Panther De Ville down winding London streets without knowing the gas from the brake.

From The Daily Beast

The exponent on the eventual running time is fully dependent only on the number of multiplications.

From Quanta Magazine

At a running time of 51 minutes, and with perhaps only half the numbers required for a full adaptation of the 2007 animated Oscar-winner, this “Ratatouille” is a mere appetizer.

From Washington Post

Her character, Anne, spends most of the 127-minute running time in inexorable decline.

From The Daily Beast

And despite the occasional three-hour running time, it does matter.

From The Daily Beast

So for now, the movies are about more, even if many of us will grumble about Les Miz's running time on the way out of the theater.

From The Daily Beast

The Avengers, the most successful movie of the year, had a running time of 143 minutes.

From The Daily Beast

Twenty years ago, the average running time of the top-five grossing movies of the year was 118.4 minutes.

From The Daily Beast

Hence there would still be forty-one minutes running time to be divided between the eastbound train and the westbound engine.

From Project Gutenberg

On her return trip, she reached New York in thirty hours running time—exactly five miles per hour.

From Project Gutenberg

These accidents are estimated to cost at most a loss of a few percent of the running time.

From Project Gutenberg

This, added to the fifteen of actual running time, would still give him a comfortable margin of forty-eight hours.

From Project Gutenberg

Deducting the time used for stops the actual running time would average sixty miles an hour.

From Project Gutenberg