You can prune, add, improve, re-work and re-word, and present a relatively polished finished product.
But then Spark lets her structure unravel two-thirds of the way through: her heroine becomes little more than an onlooker, and the Lucan material begins to seem relatively thin, finished off with a black-comedy African nemesis out of Evelyn Waugh.
We all finished relatively proud, with bogeys.
The first hole was finished relatively quickly, at which point everyone decided — prematurely, as it turned out — that it was time for a midday snack.
It was finished relatively quickly, in 1949, but it would be years before construction was completed on the freeways it was built to connect.
Moody's shares spiked upward on Tuesday on news of the completion of the investigation, although the price finished relatively unchanged.
Winners trailed losers by a count of 107 to 310 (the remainder finished relatively even) for the week ended September 4th, but there were stocks that outpaced their peers led by gold producer Newmont Mining.
Pellizotti finished the relatively short but steep 52-mile course 42 seconds ahead of the runner-up, Stefano Garzelli.
Her Austrian teammate, Alexandra Meissnitzer, who was the favorite and overall World Cup leader, finished a relatively distant second.
There was a moment, just after Clapton finished a (relatively) rousing version of Cocaine, when every single person in the auditorium got up and surged towards the stage.
