Arrive
Limit
Limit verb - To set bounds or an upper limit for.
Both words in one sentence
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has a time limit on the final boss battle of ten minutes - when those ten minutes are up, MiG-21's will arrive and bomb the field you're in, killing you both.
Source: Talking Is a Free Action - Forgetting the Cutscene Power to the Max in the first game, Eternal Lovers gives you missions where you need to destroy the enemy flagship before reinforcements arrive, thus reducing your time limit to 10 minutes instead of the usual 15.
- Even works that avoid that trope play with it in that having a functional means of communication isn't really important, due to inaccessibility or a time limit that's shorter than the time it would take for rescue to arrive.
Source: Closed Circle
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