The phrase "finished preparation for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can generally be used to describe the completion of preparation for a task. For example: "We have finished preparation for the presentation to the board."
Second, Amenhotep I appears to have nearly finished preparations for a sed festival, or even begun celebrating it; but Amenhotep I's reign is usually given only 21 years and a sed festival traditionally cannot be celebrated any earlier than a ruler's 30th year.
Sometime in the next few months, physicists at CERN will finish preparations for the most ambitious particle-physics experiment ever, which will be conducted in an apparatus modestly referred to as the Large Hadron Collider, or L.H.C.
After burning his remaining ships, he retreated to Yangzhou, where he was assassinated before he could finish preparations for another crossing.
"You probably have to ask him," Erik Spoelstra, who has been the Heat's coach since 2008 and has worked for Riley for 17 years, said after the Heat finished preparations Sunday for Game 2 of their playoff series with the Knicks on Monday night.
The president of the international football body Fifa, Sepp Blatter, recently said he was confident Brazil would finish preparations in time for the World Cup and the Confederations Cup, a smaller tournament that takes place a year before.
Beyond that accusation, today was mostly a day for managing expectations, finishing preparations and maneuvering in advance of the debate.
Sci-fi hokum meets real-time strategy once again, as Blizzard's long awaited expansion of StarCraft 2 finally finishes its preparation for war; this time with the Zerg taking centre stage (they being Giger-esque aliens hell bent on the assimilation all other races).
"This is really a significant achievement, in that it shows how APEC can lead," Mr. Marantis said in an interview after ministers finished their preparations for the summit meeting Saturday and Sunday in the Russian port of Vladivostok.
England finished their preparations for Monday's first Test with the West Indies by playing out an uneventful draw against a St Kitts & Nevis XI.
