By 1917, the Russian economy finally neared collapse under the strain of the war effort.

It wouldn't do for anything to go wrong at this stage; not when Vertue's plans were finally nearing completion.

Or the fact that America's dark night of the soul on race is finally nearing its end?

She smiled at that: it was what I'd called both girls when my patience was finally nearing an end.

Having suffered from tuberculosis for decades, his mother was finally nearing death.

With the passage of the Butler Bill in 1847, the state's financial crisis was finally nearing its end.

Father, he thought, I am finally nearing the top of the mountain.

But as long as Hazel's trail had been, he could sense it was finally nearing its end.

The clubhouse, which sat unfinished for more than a decade, is finally nearing completion.

As he finally neared the house, she also saw that he carried a small bundle over one shoulder.