Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] until the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | These develop into tiny animals so unlike their parents that the connection between adults and offspring was not recognised until the last century . |
| 2 | The huge debts which Edward inherited from his father were not redeemed until the last four years of his reign when a lengthy if fragile truce with Scotland , together with reform and refinement of treasury administration , and ruthless exactions from the Contrariants and any other offenders , enabled Edward II to leave , as no subsequent medieval king was to do , a solvent crown to his successor . |
| 3 | She suggests that in the 1850s divorce became the ‘ solution ’ to the threat of a Married Women 's Property Act ( not achieved until the last quarter of the nineteenth century ) , which would have threatened ‘ the symbolic economy that depended on and institutionalized ( such ) binary oppositions ’ . |
| 4 | The outcome had remained finely poised until the last months of Henry 's reign , when the conservative cause was seriously damaged by the actions of Norfolk 's son , the Earl of Surrey . |
| 5 | He said it was a tactical kind of game , a bit like ‘ a friendly form of warfare ’ where the game was never won until the last shot . |