But they know the home stretch will not be easy, especially the next two weeks.

We were coming around the turn into the home stretch now.

We're in the home stretch to the end of the school year, an appropriate time to talk about summer reading.

Some charity groups, however, use them at the end, to close out a building campaign in a home stretch.

They turned down the home stretch, approaching the health club.

"I was going to pass you on the home stretch, though."

Once you're both rested and ready, it's time to head for the home stretch.

We're heading into the home stretch now, he'll be here just after Christmas.

I hope we get more like it coming down the home stretch of this season".

It would also signal the home stretch to a final settlement.

But you're in the home stretch; after this week you'll be seeing your doctor weekly.

Amazingly, he was still in contention coming into the home stretch.

This article is in the home stretch now, but there are a lot of little things that I'd like to talk about briefly.

He continued his rally at the top of the home stretch pulling up to third.

Both groups knew they were supposed to enjoy the home stretch that these last few weeks of high school represented.

"You've come down to the home stretch and now you refuse to answer a couple of lousy questions at the end."

But here it is at last: the home stretch.

Fresh black trumpets are in the home stretch of this season.

To me it looks as though she knows she is in the home stretch.

But as the program pulls into the home stretch, I don't think that's it at all.

Mall operators are feeling a bit more comfortable in the home stretch.

The line of mourners at the funeral home stretched for hours.

She says that when Sinclair was on the home stretch of a project he gave up everything - friends, social life, exercise.

You're on the home stretch now, no letting up, push the pace.

I went home straight away and turned on the television.

The finish line is black on white and near the end of the home straight.

We are now on the home straight, having come to the recommendation for second reading.

We are now in the home straight of the referendum process.

The debates are over and the campaign is into the home straight.

He was challenged all the way down the home straight but held on to take the win.

Jeannie moved back home straight away, as I knew she would.

One morning Maria was working at the hospital when her boss came and said she must go home straight away.

I ask Joe to come home straight after school and do prep course homework.

The course continues with a downhill run around the far bend into the home straight.

I chose to watch the race from just above the final bend, giving me a good view of the home straight.

Better still, her parents could fly her back home straight away.

With only two fences left before the home straight, Cyrus moved out in front and looked certain to win.

He was to be sent home straight from jail.

But if you bring home straight A's from school, you get a new bike.

On each occasion he entered the home straight wide of his rivals.

At the time, grandstands existed on both sides of the home straight.

He drew a third time, and the arrow went home straight in the very centre of the red, where was a little black spot.

No setting off home straight after a quick lunch to be sure of catching the last lift?

The track is left-handed with a sharp bend into the home straight.

Mark always experienced the same feelings of contentment when entering the home straight.

I take it you're sending her home straight away?"

He ran a great race to lead them up well into the home straight and was by no means the last to cross the finish line.

There is a second licensed bar underneath the home straight grandstand.

Singh faded away in the home straight to finish seventh with a time of 1:45.77.

In the homestretch, Violence passed the field to win the race.

To win going away is to be increasing the lead in the homestretch.

Just as we were entering the homestretch, another of our leaders was gone.

Newsweek asked itself in the homestretch of the 1988 campaign.

"We are building up the team with the best and the brightest to take us through the homestretch."

But she stopped running suddenly in the upper homestretch yesterday.

When I took him to the outside in the homestretch, he responded with strength.

The book seems to keep asking: What are artists to do in the "homestretch"?

She came around the final turn, drifted wide on the homestretch and stopped running.

Reynolds made his familiar charge down the homestretch to take second.

I head back over the bridge and down a final descent to the homestretch.

Despite a nasty wind down the homestretch, the athletes were happy.

"They're getting into the homestretch, so I'm happy they got a chance to see a finished product," he said.

He led nearly all the way but didn't clinch anything until the homestretch.

He was challenged in the homestretch, but that other horse didn't have a shot at getting past him.

He ran a strong race for more than a mile and was second by inches coming down the homestretch.

They are asked to make the big move into the homestretch, but they don't fire.

A close loss would be a moral victory heading into the season's homestretch.

He was on the homestretch, and only he knew what that meant.

Stormy Blues had a clear shot in the homestretch, but didn't fire.

She was back on the sidewalk, sprinting down the homestretch.

Mossflower tried to catch her in the homestretch, but could not get close.

When Bruce opened his eyes, the horses were pounding into the homestretch.

I say that even if I'm working like mad, thundering down homestretch on a book.

And halfway through the homestretch, the lead was lost.