Example sentences of "not until [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until five years had elapsed that track lifting began in earnest , and this was only in fits and starts . |
| 2 | She gave birth in 1970 to a boy whom she named Caleb James , but it was not until five years later that she said Nicholson was the father . |
| 3 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 4 | It was not until five years after the exhibition that one of John Bowes ' jewellery advisors informed the excited couple the Swan was for sale . |
| 5 | It was not until five months after the birth that Leannda 's sight deteriorated rapidly until she went completely blind . |
| 6 | She said not until five past , Mrs said you can get up them stairs , she said you go at ten minutes early every day ! |
| 7 | Oh there it is Catchword 's not until five , five tonight |
| 8 | Though one of Minton 's and Ayrton 's designs for Macbeth had been included among other Shakespeare illustrations in the December 1942 issue of Penguin New Writing , it was not until 1945 that work by Minton began to make a regular appearance in its pages . |
| 9 | It was not until 1957 that Dement and Kleitman identified " emergent Stage I " sleep as a completely distinct stage of sleep from other light sleep stages , always accompanied by rapid eye movements , and frequently by reports of dreaming . |
| 10 | Figures given in various reports and signals at this time range from " 20,000 " to " 30,000 " to " 40,000 " ( it was not until 18 May that a reasonably accurate total was available ) . |
| 11 | It was not until 1935 that a geologist on the Scottish staff was appointed to supervise petrographical work in Scotland . |
| 12 | Not until 1935 , when the government offered rural councils no less than 80 per cent of the cost of construction of houses for agricultural workers , was legislation successful in moving recalcitrant rural authorities . |
| 13 | She added : ‘ Our next election is not until 1992 . |
| 14 | Example continued It 's not until 1992 that the giant wakes up and tries to dig his way to the surface . |
| 15 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 16 | It was not until 1909 that the spinal railway of Malaya was completed , connecting the rubber plantations to the capital , Kuala Lumpur , north to Ipoh and Penang , and later ( after 1931 ) up the pan-handle to Thailand . |
| 17 | It was not until the California law of 1947 that a state law tackled air pollution other than dense smoke , and not until 1952 that Oregon introduced the first comprehensive state air pollution control legislation . |
| 18 | There is no explicit mention of a child to be born to him and Sarah , and there will be none for another three chapters ( not until 15.4 ) . |
| 19 | General MacArthur did not regard the deployment of American troops in Korea as a priority and it was not until 8 September that the forces led by General John R. Hodge began the task of occupation . |
| 20 | It was not until 1966 that the transcontinental standard-gauge line was completed , thereby connecting Sydney to Perth without break of gauge for the first time . |
| 21 | However , it was not until 1966 that a committee under Lord Fulton was appointed to ‘ examine the structure , recruitment and management , including training , of the Home Civil Service ’ . |
| 22 | It was not until 1970–1 that Alexander Hughes established its own research department . |
| 23 | It was not until many years later when I was a principal inspector in 1965 that I had my first direct encounter with ICAO itself . |
| 24 | It was not until many years after the whole Jean-Claude episode was behind me that I realized the extent to which my physical appearance had dictated the terms of my life in Paris . |
| 25 | Then it was not until 1861 that the Union for the Completion of the Cathedral started its work , carried along on a wave of Romantic nationalism . |
| 26 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 27 | It was not until 1974 that his ability to write and perform at his best gelled again , with the release of ‘ Blood on the Tracks ’ . |
| 28 | But it was not until 1974 that the establishment of the so-called public service obligation grant marked acceptance of the notion that the railways , though necessary on social grounds , could not hope to pay their way . |
| 29 | Not until 1918 was universal manhood suffrage introduced on the basis of ( six months ' ) residence . |
| 30 | It was not until 1962 , when the Organisation of American States resolved that Cuba had voluntarily placed itself outside the inter-American system , that Castro — finding a temperamental and ideological disposition backed up by pressing security considerations — switched his energies to the export of revolution on a more substantial level . |