come to a close vs dry up

come to a close

verb
  • To draw toward a conclusion; to end. 

dry up

verb
  • To cease to exist; to disappear 

  • To manually dry dishes. 

  • To cause to become dry. 

  • To deprive someone of (something vital). 

  • To become dry (often of weather); to lose water. 

  • When our money dried up, we had to get proper jobs. 

  • To stop talking; to forget what one was going to say. 

How often have the words come to a close and dry up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )