The Commission was to endeavor to complete its work within three years of the date when the period for filing claims closes.

By today's standards, the period covered by the Vienna exhibition closes just as things are starting to heat up.

The first period of the Second Vatican Council closes.

A period of consultation on the provisional conclusions closed on 2 February 2010.

The waiting period legally closed on December 17, 2007.

When our period closes both systems were living side by side in uneasy harmony.

So closed this period of Agassiz's life.

Both were for periods of time closed as potential hotbeds of sedition.

The brief period of world consensus on the limits of sovereignty is closing precisely because the notion has come far enough to scare many nations.

The first period of the Second Vatican Council closed, with the next session to begin on September 8, 1963.