| These eye-catching kaffir lilies provide vertical interest and a late splash of colour when many summer flowers are coming to a close. |
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| By the time their set was coming to a close the band had the audience eating out of their hands. |
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| As the league is rapidly coming to a close the trophies are up for grabs and all eight teams are still in the running. |
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| With this decision the long process of revising the Operational Guidelines is now coming to a close. |
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| Your probationary period is coming to a close and your employing dentist has indicated that you will be getting your own case load now. |
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| My second week as Commissioner of Official Languages is coming to a close, and I have already crossed the country coast to coast. |
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| The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. |
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| His desperate financial woes, it seems, will finally be coming to a close. |
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| The old proprietary model of running closed software models is coming to a close. |
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| The initial phase of defining policy objectives and drafting policy reforms is coming to a close. |
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| While the Tribunals' mandates are slowly coming to a close, the trials before national courts will continue. |
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| In previous games, the war between the Allies and Soviets was coming to a close with the Allies nearing victory. |
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| However it is that she got there, we know the reign of the tyrants at grady Memorial is coming to a close. |
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| The days of multiple hardware platforms and operating systems working with multiple databases and software configurations within one enterprise are coming to a close. |
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| Now, with thousands of medical studies showing little or no adverse health effects from coffee, all the decades of naysaying are finally coming to a close. |
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| The quiet years of Alfred's life were coming to a close, and war was on the horizon. |
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| It appears that the century which is coming to a close, with all its battles to emancipate the under-privileged social classes, has been in vain and has taught us nothing. |
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| Mr. Armstrong, the endtime Elijah, was used by God to restore truth in the Church, truth that had nearly died out by the time the Sardis Era was coming to a close. |
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| As this issue went to print, the UN climate summit was coming to a close in Cancún, Mexico where governments approved a series of tangible, if modest steps towards a global deal. |
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| It is therefore a particularly good time to carry out a thorough review of the programmes which are now coming to a close and to take advantage of the experience gained when preparing the new programmes. |
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| The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is nearing completion of its core activities, with public hearings coming to a close, and an extension of its mandate to December 2008 has been agreed. |
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| The reasons for a shrinking crop size are coming to a close. |
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| At the same time, the era of datacenters driven solely by proprietary closed source software is rapidly coming to a close. |
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| While we must be aware that CAN's NCE funds are eventually coming to a close, we also want to maximize the value of our research and training efforts in the time we have left. |
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