I might say I touched all the bases if I did what is necessary to complete a job or activity.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Leaders of minority groups including Hispanics and Muslims are urging their communities to complete the form so they are counted.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

If you stayed only ten minutes in each store, it would take over eighty-six hours to complete your visit.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Eleven workers died. He said BP expects to complete two relief wells in August to stop the leak from a damaged well.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Among other things, they say he sought to profit from his duty to appoint a United States senator to complete Barack Obama's term.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Graduates of study programs at most foreign medical schools may have to complete two or three years of residency, although there are exceptions.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

It took the astronauts more than three hours to complete the preparations for leaving the lander.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The Earth takes twenty-four hours to complete one full turn or revolution of three-hundred-sixty degrees.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Craig Venter led another effort to complete the human genome at a private, not-for-profit laboratory.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Mister Thornton was working to complete drawings for the design of the United States Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The album "No Line on the Horizon" took the band about two years to complete.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

But first offenders might be given a chance to complete an alcohol education program instead.

VOA: special.2009.04.02