1.   Anyone who had attained that level of fluency would have left bilingual for mainstream classes, and perhaps taken ESL on the side to help complete the transition.

2.   Arthur Ochs Sulzberger is retiring from the board of The New York Times Co., completing the transition to a fourth generation of family leadership at the company.

3.   A handful of brokerages have not yet completed their transition to the new software and are manually executing trades for stocks covered under the new rules, Berkeley said.

4.   Airbus had planned to complete the transition from a relatively loose partnership to a private company by January.

5.   But it never completed the transition.

6.   Club vice president Fred Claire restructured the position in the name of stability and maturity, and, in order to complete the transition, promised to trade Offerman.

7.   Even after he was succeeded by another general, Joao Figueiredo, who completed the transition to democracy, Geisel remained a respected figure.

8.   Gbagbo should honor their bravery by completing the transition to democratic rule.

9.   He is betting that if the promised economic turnaround emerges next year, he will have all the popular backing he needs to complete the transition to democracy.

10.   He has long talked about retiring once the transition was completed.