begin vs run its course

begin

verb
  • To come into existence. 

  • To be in the first stage of some situation 

  • To start, to initiate or take the first step into something. 

noun
  • Beginning; start. 

run its course

verb
  • To come to a natural end. 

How often have the words begin and run its course occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )