41.   That would explain the abrupt end to the blood trail.

42.   The American presence, however, came to an abrupt end.

43.   The Burnett-Heinz split is the most recent in a spate of abrupt ends to long relationships between agencies and clients.

44.   The crisis, and the abrupt end of a season, had happened somewhere else.

45.   The experiment came to an abrupt end when her father got wind of it.

46.   The not so young shook their heads in disgust at the abrupt end to the shortened season.

47.   The massacre brought a storybook life to an abrupt end.

48.   The party came to an abrupt end after three blows in swift succession clobbered the economy.

49.   The recent spell of Indian summer across the East will come to an abrupt end as a strong cold front sweeps south from Canada.

50.   The Reds tried to spare him the embarrassment of an abrupt end to his career.