Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] towards the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investment in plant and equipment is expected to slow towards the end of the year . |
| 2 | Immediately after discharge from hospital most patients have a recurrence of the anxiety which is a prominent feature of the early days after the attack and which tends to lessen towards the end of the hospital stay . |
| 3 | The corollary of this is that new information tends to occur towards the end of the sentence . |
| 4 | Students tend to leave towards the end of the season in order to take a vacation before returning to college ; but it is not only amongst this group that turnover levels are high . |
| 5 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 6 | Enterprise zones originated in a number of ideas that began to amalgamate towards the end of the 1970s . |
| 7 | He began to move towards the end of the bar where Jacko Roberts was drinking alone . |
| 8 | According to their account , the professional-managerial class started to develop towards the end of the nineteenth century as a class which specialized in the ‘ reproduction of capitalist class relations ’ became necessary . |
| 9 | Many of the relatives and friends who rated the homes as an excellent place for the person who died to live towards the end of his or her life made rather perfunctory comments : ‘ I ca n't fault the home ’ ; ‘ It was very nice , no qualms about it . ’ |