Starting and finishing

More collocations for starting and finishing

• The invention of television marked the beginning of the end for popular radio shows.
• I studied hard for a whole month and the end result was that I got a grade ‘A’ in the exam.
• The meal we had on our last evening in Istanbul was a perfect end to our holiday.
• It’s two o’clock. Let’s make a start / get started, shall we? Then we can finish by five.
• As my time at university came to an end, I knew I had to start looking for a job.
• The meeting drew to a close at 5.30, after a long discussion.
• Without any warning, he was fired from the newspaper in 2014. It was an abrupt end to his career in journalism.