This was brought to a premature end by the onset of the second world war.

His career as a top runner came to a premature end.

This brought a premature end to a promising career as an artist.

If any of them shot like movie cowboys, their mission could come to a premature end, and that wouldn't do.

The ground was then hit by rain, resulting in a premature end to the day's play.

It looked on Saturday as if they had declared a premature end to the season, in any case.

At around the same time, the coup against him came to a premature end.

Where, fair or not, the honeymoon seems to have come to a premature end.

And in 1958, the cycle appears to have come to a premature end.

The open and positive debate that there had been since the summer thus seems likely to come to a premature end as a result.