“A small number of firms have been asked to cease trading.”

“The firing and noise would cease, but only for a moment.”

“A meeting of Skipton Rural Council decided to cease offering council houses for the time being.”

“These scratches disturb the flat surface of the stone and light reflection ceases to be uniform so the shine gradually disappears.”

“If the conferment of a right of avoidance ceases to make commercial or legal sense, then it should be treated as having been exhausted.”

“Hence, when the pulsations of the seed are stilled, the afflux of psychic energy ceases.”

“Matters came to a head in 1925 when, after acrimonious dispute, his work ceased with the project unfinished.”

“Many of the Army's professional journals have ceased publication and more are fading away.”

“They have ceased to practise, and perhaps even to believe in their faith without abjuring it, like many if not most of us.”