fag end
Example Sentences
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But at the fag end of the year the boom evaporated, and, coupled with lower demand from China, led to a pile-up of unsold chips at distributors and retailers.
From Reuters ● Feb. 15, 2019
A single question at the fag end of an extended PMQs is not a commanding position from which to address the nation.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2017
Photograph: Stephen Pond/PA It's that tough period at the fag end of the jumps season and bang in the middle of the phoney war on the Flat before the new campaign properly gets under way.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2013
However, since the deal was announced only towards the fag end of the quarter, we don’t expect it to have helped Akamai’s margins this quarter.
From Forbes ● Feb. 7, 2012
The early miles were 158 across the fag end of the dazzling plain of Feraghan, which instead of being covered with villages is an uninhabited desert with a salt lake.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
