After the gold rush wound down in the 1860s, the majority of the work force found jobs in the railroad industry.

As the war wound down in 1945, Heinlein began re-evaluating his career.

The civil war, which had exhausted and impoverished the country, wound down in 1860.

As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage.

The investigation finally wound down in late 1922 without an official ruling on the fate of the Deering.

Funding was cancelled in 1972 and development wound down in 1973.

Since then, the business has wound down in a painful series of mass layoffs and liquidation sales.

The Camp began was wound down in mid-1990s with units gradually being transferred to other locations.

Commerce gradually wound down in the latter half of the 20th century.

When that business wound down in 1985, he decided to return to the stage to "do a tester, see if I had lost the gift."