They have put good runs together at crucial stages of the season.

This was a crucial stage of the game and a single stone might win or lose it.

After a few days comes the next crucial stage in the breaking process.

The next is the crucial stage of the whole operation; nothing else can correct it.

Because we have reached a crucial stage in our plan.

Within two years her condition had reached what I would call the crucial stage.

It is a crucial stage of the race for us.

Today we are at a crucial stage in the overall process.

This, however, is the crucial stage; during it human health and the environment are at risk.

We find ourselves at a crucial stage in the construction of Europe.