Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [adv] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to exaggerate the speed with which industrialization transformed Japan , partly because economic change was not insignificant in Tokugawa times , and partly too because industry was based primarily in the rural areas until well into the twentieth century . |
| 2 | Russia until well into the second half of the nineteenth century is a more striking example . |
| 3 | In his will Barclay also remembered numerous nephews and cousins , some of whose descendants were active in his bank and brewery until well into the twentieth century . |
| 4 | ‘ The gun stayed in the pocket of your jacket in the Green Room until well into the second act . |
| 5 | Their thirteen examples are still flying safely and reliably and at an operating profit , and unless and until a new design is embarked upon ( undoubtedly requiring massive joint international investment ) then Concorde will almost certainly be the only way civilian passengers can travel at twice the speed of sound until well into the next century . |
| 6 | The UK 's growing stockpile of plutonium is being stored in preparation for the development of a commercial fast breeder which is unlikely to take place until well into the next century , if at all . |
| 7 | The Old English Pearmain , recorded in 1204 and so named because of its pear-like shape , was the main dessert apple until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | But then it would have to face up to the fact that , by comparison with much of the rest of the world , it would grow steadily poorer with no chance of arresting that trend until well into the next century . |
| 9 | Traprain Law was a tribal centre until well into the Roman age , and has yielded up over a hundred pieces of fine Roman silverware . |
| 10 | She was used as a model until far into the nineteenth century and was still carrying an admiral 's flag in 1848 . |
| 11 | One of our more perceptive archaeological historians , Malcolm Todd , could write in 1981 in his survey of Roman Britain 55 BC — AD 400 : ‘ Archaeologists are now much more confident of their ability to demonstrate urban occupation until well into the fifth century in many of the cities and towns of Britain than they were twenty years ago ’ , but hastily adds ‘ though this confidence is not shared by all historians of the period . ’ |
| 12 | Although both these samples suggest that there was a decline until well into the fifteenth century , followed by a recovery , there are two further points which need to be taken into consideration . |
| 13 | To go to the Mediterranean in summer , except in search of art and architecture , was still regarded as madness until well into the twentieth century , that era of the novel worship of sun and brown skins . |