Once this intense phase has passed, there may still be a fair way to go on the journey.
Both are in the early, intense phase of treatment.
Far from ending, the analysts said, the war could enter a more intense phase this winter.
With the rate change, the ad wars enter a more intense phase.
It also marked the beginning of a new, more intense phase of that war.
The process began an intense phase in the late 1940s and continues in some places to the present day.
In the early 1680s a more intense phase of persecution began, later to be called "the Killing Time".
By tradition an intense new phase of the presidential campaign starts this weekend.
With that publication, the most intense phase of Wilde's career began.
If anything, with parliamentary elections just eight months away, the fight has moved to a new and increasingly intense phase.