51.   The players association set up this camp for its members who found themselves unemployed when the strike came to an abrupt end last week.

52.   The selloff marked an abrupt end to a two-month rally in stock prices.

53.   Then he got the call that brought retirement to an abrupt end.

54.   Then, the gill-stroking came to an abrupt end.

55.   There were tears and uncertainty last spring, when the other era came to an abrupt end.

56.   Then it all came to an abrupt end.

57.   There will be no sudden transformation, like the abrupt end of legal apartheid in South Africa.

58.   Those transmissions came to an abrupt end soon afterward, and to date, nobody knows if he has been killed, or simply vanished.

59.   When Taliban rule came to an abrupt end, the men left.

60.   While many moderate Irish nationalists agree the British were unnecessarily obstinate, the abrupt end to the cease-fire has led to widespread revulsion.