| Even the run-down Roman roads which served England after a fashion petered out in Scotland. |
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| The men in green will be disappointed with their performance as their smooth first half petered out in the second. |
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| His interest in criminal work petered out fairly early in his career and he specialised in family law. |
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| With the lights fading, the match petered into a draw at the end of regulation time. |
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| Despite the strong start and the strong acting, the film as a whole petered out toward the end. |
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| The others have petered off and seeing us climb a few places does everyone the world of good. |
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| Gradually Barcelona had petered out in that first half, Ronaldinho in particular. |
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| When the alluvial gold had petered out the family left, as did all the other diggers, and settled in Port Augusta. |
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| The local musicians and the tourists were thoroughly suspicious of something so synthetic, and it petered out. |
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| Each section had the glimmerings of a good plot, but they all petered out into nothing very much. |
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| The war petered out, and the colonies gained their collective independence. |
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| The lane petered out to track, the rain increased to torrential and dozens of lambs crowded under thorn trees, bleating. |
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| After a few years of vigorous controversy the second great debate petered out. |
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| We drove along a barely made road that petered out into a dirt track scraped out of the red sandy soil. |
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| Eventually the track petered out and he had to find his way by keeping the rounded summit of the opposite, Army-held hill behind his back. |
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| When hostilities petered out following the conclusion of the Anglo-French peace of 1546, Anglo-Scottish relations remained as bad as ever. |
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| By 1999, however, the miracle seemed to have petered out as the economy was dominated by inflation, debt and an insolvent banking system. |
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| It had been a terrific cup tie, but the game then petered out as the Wasps, showing a fine professionalism, prevented the Raiders from mounting any sort of late pressure. |
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| The Hazare movement has since petered out, but its central idea, of the unique meritoriousness of the middle and upper classes of India, remains. |
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| At this difficult point we were left to our own devices, since the dissents petered out into silence. |
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| The schools were only shut for two days and the number of new cases quickly petered out. |
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| Trees were scarce in that part of the valley and only about a mile upstream on the Water of Girvan, trees petered out at a place where trembling poplars grew. |
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| The tracks have not been traversed by vehicles for at least two years, and many tracks simply petered out into the bush. |
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| The hurricane season ended in December when tropical storm Zeta formed and petered out in January. |
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| A crowd of 28,401 amused themselves with Mexican waves as the match petered out without further incident and the Czechs emerged victorious. |
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| Buckwheat was no longer ground in the thirties and rye petered out when pigs were no longer fattened up in farms. |
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| The excitement quickly petered out after the turn of the century, with the formation of large corporations which bought up individual claims. |
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| The game petered out into its traditional pattern of man-to-man marking. |
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| As the trail petered out and we struck out across country, the signs of human life grew faint and then disappeared. |
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| As he entered his early 30s, his career petered out with loan spells at Blackburn Rovers, Ancona and Triestina. |
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| But the run petered out and Sebes was replaced early in 1956, his team and the coaching structures around it dismantled. |
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| The lane petered out into bare ground, following which were 10m of rocks before a trail led round the back of a villa. |
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| By the mid to late 80s, the Wild movement had petered out, their radical experiment obscured by the intervening decades. |
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| But by the late 1990s, the Savoy brand had petered out and the company was selling off bits and pieces. |
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| An economic boom in the West Bank appears to have petered out, threatening to further destabilize the region. |
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| A path petered out a few feet from my washing line at the back. |
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| The protests largely petered out in December, but now the draft bill has been released activists say they are planning new protests, and opposition politicians have pledged to rally public opinion against it. |
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| At about that time, whereas asylum countries in Europe had shown great generosity in the early days, the pool of visas for refugees began to dwindle and the laudable spirit of welcome petered out. |
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| While applications from Sri Lanka remained constant throughout 2008, applications from the Dominican Republic largely petered out from May onwards. |
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| After those year classes petered out, declines were observed. |
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| The war slowly petered out after this battle, and Louis took the dispute over Normandy to Pope Callixtus II's council in Reims that October. |
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| Indeed, after the First World War, the Pictorialist movement petered out and experimental photography in Germany definitively dislocated 19th-century schemas. |
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| The evening petered out and it was graceful. |
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| The unification related import boom in Germany has petered out, which will largely outweigh the benefits from the forecasted uptake in world output growth and trade. |
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| It petered out in a maze of factionalism and mutual recriminations. |
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| However, the authorities broadly managed to contain inflation, as the effects on prices of the introduction of VAT petered out during the first three months. |
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| Richard Brodie, against his former club, had Southport's two best efforts at goal, while Alex Rodman's surging run petered out at the other end. |
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| As far as we know, the advice went unheeded: Delaney's second play, The Lion in Love, made little impact and her theatrical career quickly petered out. |
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| Most assaults petered out with the attackers decimated by shrapnel and machine-guns and their opponents equally diminished by high explosive and gas, for the Entente armies were now using gas, too. |
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| Certainly the manner in which their challenge rather petered out late on hinted at self-doubt as at least half of those crammed into this arena hollered for Italian progress. |
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| In Indian Affairs Branch files and in Indian homes I encountered many examples of cases in which attempts by Indians to spur official action or simply to seek information had petered out in a maze of jargon and red tape. |
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| As the gold fields petered out, the Chinese found employment as domestic servants, mainly in Victoria, as coal miners' helpers at Nanaimo, and as seasonal workers in the new Fraser River salmon canning industry. |
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| The explicitly Croat parties cried foul and denounced the legitimacy of a Croat supposedly elected by non-Croats, but their protests petered out rapidly. |
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| The overall influence of Peter Parker on the page has petered out. |
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| It kind of petered out and he was gone, back to the shadows. |
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