Example sentences of "marked the end " in BNC.

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1 Christmas marked the end of this boom .
2 Yesterday 's sentences marked the end of the first of what will be a series of trials concerned with the 25-day disturbance .
3 The Salon Bleu marked the end of the public apartments , for beyond lay the Empress 's study , her library , and her bedroom , off which was a small oratory .
4 Howe 's speech effectively marked the end of the phoney war and the start of the public campaign for votes .
5 The final stages of creative eclecticism and the power of the office-block station marked the end of the elaborate experimentation with revivalist styles .
6 But ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ marked the end of The Smiths as we know them .
7 These outbursts marked the end of the entire eruption , for at 2.30 p.m. on the twenty-eighth , after being active for a hundred days , the last , mild explosion echoed out over Krakatoa , and silence returned .
8 THE unveiling of a plaque by the Mayor of Winchester , Captain Richard Bates , at the area close to Alresford Pond known as The Soke , on Saturday , marked the end of 15 years ' endeavour by the Alresford Society .
9 His retirement in 1990 as Chairman of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' Committee marked the end of over 15 years ' association with Surrey Youth Cricket .
10 The ill-fated Mannheim-Paris trip of 1778 , which Mozart undertook with his mother , not with Leopold , marked the end of the close , trusting relationship that father and son had formerly enjoyed .
11 Hoccleve 's death marked the end of the first quarter of the fifteenth century .
12 Furthermore this match marked the end of an era in English rugby for a record-breaking team which will never play together again .
13 With the flight into Cosford on July 27 , WL679 marked the end of an era that stretched over 43 years of sterling service for the type .
14 The collapse of the campaign against rate-capping marked the end of a co-ordinated New Urban Left ( Green 1987 : 220–1 ) .
15 The assassination by a Korean of the resident general , Itó Hirobumi , during a visit to Manchuria in 1909 , marked the end of all attempts at conciliation and became the excuse for annexation .
16 But the reorganization does seem to have marked the end of any assumption that East Anglia might become another major sphere of ducal influence .
17 In the past an arrest marked the end of the police investigation .
18 For Walter Long proposing Law as leader , the decision marked the end of an era , the swansong of the country gentleman .
19 The violence and confusion which Diodorus ( xi.7 1 ) says marked the end of Xerxes ( 465 ) and the accession of Artaxerxes , who acquired the throne by murdering his elder brother , led Egypt in the south of the empire and Baktria in the east to revolt in the hope of freedom .
20 Motherhood replaced marriage as the occasion for leaving paid work and seldom marked the end of a woman 's labour force membership .
21 The celebratory boom of cannon echoing from another part of the citadel marked the end of the ceremony and the emperor descended slowly from his throne to shake hands in European fashion with the Resident Superior , and side by side they led the way into an antechamber .
22 An increase in the traffic marked the end of a timetable period .
23 The sixties , however , certainly marked the end of the era of post-war austerity and a time when the belief that the State could solve most economic problems was strong .
24 Flush with corvine visiting cards , Rolfe took up residence in Christchurch , before the fraudulent offer he made for his hosts ' house marked the end of his credit and credibility in Hampshire .
25 The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development .
26 A desultory round of applause marked the end of the jump-off .
27 Then huge fields of part-cut wheat , grazed by sumptuous pheasants , marked the end of the wild and the beginning of habitation and country civilisation .
28 A visit to India by the Nepalese Prime Minister , Krishna Prasad Bhattarai , in June 1990 had marked the end of a 15-month period of soured Indo-Nepalese relations [ see p. 37531 ] .
29 The failure of the Guadalajara offensive marked the end of a period of change discernible in Franco 's military tactics .
30 THE Eagle Mill closure at the end of last year marked the end of an era for Ipswich pensioners — many of whom had been associated with the mill for their entire lives .
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