That will probably be more important for its passing than for its result.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits

This thing has been very tenacious. It's probably its last gasp.

Our event is probably at its maximum now.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.