Example sentences of "[adv] coming to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also big trousers with big tops — it was all coming to an end , but it was still OK to wear them . |
| 2 | Give me patience , give me a little more patience , Alida thought , for it is soon coming to an end . |
| 3 | So why not celebrate the fact that it 's rapidly coming to an end and invest in a poignant musical reminder of 1992 … ? |
| 4 | This is a typical example of Coleridge 's influence , which extended to many other writers of the age ; but in the case of Wordsworth the period of any real exchange of ideas was rapidly coming to an end . |
| 5 | If we look also at the review sections , we see that already in the 1920s McKerrow takes the view that a " great period of discovery is rapidly coming to an end : " an age of English scholarship is passing , if not already passed " . |
| 6 | Irrespective of the decisions of the World Bank classifiers , however , it is an undeniable fact that in the 1990s most hitherto self-proclaimed socialist or communist countries are rapidly coming to an understanding with transnational capitalism , and that the scope and volume of the transnational practices of such states with the states and institutions of the capitalist system have increased dramatically in the last decade . |
| 7 | ‘ The reports we received on him were excellent and his contract was also coming to an end . |
| 8 | The promotion is now coming to an end , but to qualify you just needed to produce till receipts for any eight loaves of Hovis 800g . |
| 9 | That his time with us is fast coming to an end . |
| 10 | The period of this activity was relatively short , virtually coming to an end c .1760 , but during it he produced a significant body of work both in his own region of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire and further afield as well . |
| 11 | ( According to the so-called " linking rule " , a spell of employment lasting less than this time is considered an interruption to a single spell of unemployment , whilst a spell of employment lasting longer than this but then coming to an end opens up a new spell of unemployment . ) |