Example sentences of "[adv] until the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I am happy , the men are allowed to stand down until the next patrol . |
| 2 | ( The rape and incest clauses applied only until the 13th week of gestation . ) |
| 3 | It took only until the next Wednesday when he beat me . |
| 4 | Most country houses and palaces did so until the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 6 | It was not until the nineteenth century and the work of Pierre Janet that anyone even began to consider the subject of regression . |
| 7 | Their exclusion from the normal commerce of local society was perpetuated long beyond the time when leprosy had been controlled ; indeed , it was not until the nineteenth century that some Cagots finally became authentic citizens . |
| 8 | It was not until the 17th century that Swanage became a port for tone . |
| 9 | Not until the second half of the sixteenth century , when there was a desire to combat Spanish power and to tap the resources of the Indies , did an English enterprise to North America again become attractive . |
| 10 | Er , at the time , we had no response when this was announced by Jim erm , it does in fact clash with our council meeting but in view of the fact that erm our business meeting Se , in December is not until the second Monday , I would be happy to put the erm council meeting back to the following Monday if there was sufficient interest from the members . |
| 11 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 12 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 13 | But it was not until the twentieth century that these policies proved effective . |
| 14 | Much of this engineering work was wasted at the time , for it was done on the eve of the railway age and never put to good use — not until the twentieth century . |
| 15 | Not until the twentieth century did the increase in population force an uneconomic division of farms and seriously threaten Basque rural prosperity . |
| 16 | The Benedictine monasteries regarded themselves as islands of true Christianity in a sea of pagan barbarism and it was not until the eleventh century that the monks of the abbey of Cluny and its affiliated houses began a campaign that was able to educate the laity and local clergy . |
| 17 | Not until the 4th Century AD was the concept of rest-day transferred by the church from the Jewish seventh day ( Sabbath ) to the Christian first day . |
| 18 | Although the Caucasus was then part of Russia , it was not until the mid-20th century that its borders were defined and political stability was achieved . |
| 19 | The nearest Hounslow came to scoring was not until the eightieth minute when Keith Hoad headed narrowly wide from a Mark Francis cross . |
| 20 | The principles of electromagnetism had been established by the late eighteenth century , but it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that any sort of measurements could be made of the small currents produced by living tissue . |
| 21 | Oriental rugs were probably brought into Spain by the Moorish invaders during the 11th and 12th centuries , but it was not until the 14th century that Italian merchants , trading with Anatolia ( Turkey ) and the Near East , introduced them into most of Europe . |
| 22 | But it was not until the fourteenth century , when Christian monotheism had really taken root among the people , that the people of Europe had evolved sufficiently to develop a widespread mystical tradition of their own . |
| 23 | But it was not until the next Sunday , October 28 , the day after another climber had taken a message to Navarradonda , that a small ground search was mounted . |
| 24 | She was often out all evening and did not reappear until the small hours , so that it was not until the next day , not until the next evening , that Anna began to be alarmed at her absence . |
| 25 | Ven looked at her levelly for all of one second , then , ‘ If you remember , ’ he answered , ‘ it was not until the next day that I knew that the beautiful green-eyed woman with stunning light gold hair was a ‘ journalist ’ . ’ |
| 26 | She was often out all evening and did not reappear until the small hours , so that it was not until the next day , not until the next evening , that Anna began to be alarmed at her absence . |
| 27 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 28 | It was not until the next morning that the local council realised they had to repair a large hole in the middle of the square . |
| 29 | Notts County and Manchester City failed to make a vital breakthrough during the first half of their tie , it was not until the ninetieth minute that Notts County of the second beat Manchester City with a goal from Lund . |
| 30 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |