Example sentences of "very recently " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am standing in what until very recently was one of the largest Uridian marioc manufacturing centres , ’ Trevor Newson poked his microphone in front of the nearest dancer .
2 However , until very recently , the leading ethnographers of the police made few disclosures on the difficulties they encountered , implying that their entry into the field and relations with police officers were unproblematic .
3 Until very recently professional sportsmen have been regarded by directors as skilled workmen ; footballers ' incomes were not calculated in the same way as transfer fees according to market value but in relation to what other working-class men could expect to earn .
4 Burden was pointing to the only one that looked bare , as if until very recently it had lain with its exposed area embedded in the river 's gravelly floor .
5 ( 5 ) Very recently it has been shown that transplants of the SCN can be used to pass rhythmicity from one animal to another .
6 In Brazil , until very recently , wealthy farmers actually received tax subsidies as an incentive to burn the forest for cattle ranches .
7 Dumenil , which specialises in single country European funds , claims it became concerned ‘ very recently ’ that its valuations on two funds in particular were out-of-line with general movements in the market .
8 But until very recently , even though the politicians have actively participated , the debate has been largely academic .
9 Since then , and until very recently , Europe has been united against the fear , which would have seemed as absurd in previous centuries as it still does to many in the 1980s , of Russia .
10 Yet , until very recently , the local health authority made no attempt to provide any kind of rehabilitation for their former patient .
11 There are so many similarities : poverty and governments more concerned ( until very recently ) with the statistics of production than with the producers ; a lack of accountability among governments and officials ; an absence of standards maintained through efficient inspectorates ; a lack of that motivated middle class which in the West has made its strength felt in politics ; a lack of effective protest by the victims , for the most part people who have come to accept pollution and filth as part of their everyday condition .
12 The small island of Iki , lying off the northern coast of Japan and near to the coast of South Korea , was until very recently the scene of some of the most terrible examples of deliberate dolphin slaughter several times each year .
13 Until very recently , observers were rarely on board to verify officially reported figures , and even if they were , attempts were often made to stop them witnessing the dolphin catch .
14 And she knew that she had seen that expression before , and very recently .
15 She remains a popular saint , not just in her native Peru , but until very recently in Europe also .
16 Others include Mahatma Gandhi , Nelson Mandela , Abraham Lincoln , Thomas Paine , Martin Luther King , Willy Brandt , Nye Bevan and a woman from my constituency who died very recently : her name was Olive Lloyd .
17 Not that , until very recently , I have begun to do so .
18 To a very recently bereaved family who are struggling with a multiplicity of emotions this early attention to fees can seem mercenary .
19 The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control .
20 Very recently David Davis ( 1982 ) has made a scholarly contribution to this field and has been fortunate enough to have the chance to put theory into practice at Birmingham Polytechnic where under the leadership of Brian Watkins a specialist course of considerable merit and vision for P.G.C.E. students has been introduced .
21 Royal Air Force records are fuller and more accurate than those of the S.A.S. From these I have learned only very recently that the Stirling concerned ( LJ 850 ) belonged to 620 Squadron .
22 In secular philosophy this doctrine , in the form given to it by Descartes , has remained until very recently a basic element in European thought and science .
23 Until very recently it was conspicuous that the secretariats and standards committees were dominated by Germans who fought to have German standards , which are often the strictest in the world , adopted as definitive EC standards .
24 There , until very recently , the packages and drums of waste were simply left in shallow open trenches , the authorities accepting that rain-water would eventually wash some of its radioactivity into a nearby river .
25 It has very recently been cleaned and restored , a work that was carried out with great care .
26 It is sometimes said that this is a novel view of the question , that until very recently all political theorists believed in a general obligation to obey the law .
27 Someone had cleaned the lettering , not very recently .
28 Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories .
29 Until very recently , death was an issue which we could be certain about .
30 Until very recently no women have been ordained as priests , but we need to ask ourselves why this has been the case .
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