Example sentences of "until a [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Until a few years ago , the opportunity to purchase AVCs was only available to members of occupational schemes that offered AVC facilities , which not all did . |
| 32 | Until a few years ago , married women had to have paid full NI contributions for half the time they were married and working to get anything at all in their own right . |
| 33 | He said the resident , who is in her late 70s , had been very confused about what had happened and had not reported the matter until a few days afterwards . |
| 34 | At the last minute the convention 's keynote speaker for Sunday 26 April was taken ill , and her replacement turned out to be Mr John Frohnmayer , the dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who , although not scheduled to leave his post officially until a few days later , had actually worked his last day the previous Friday . |
| 35 | The pixels can be enlarged until a few of them fill the screen and detailed manipulation can be done . |
| 36 | The " mothers " , as they are generally referred to , are women who until a few years ago had never spoken in public , never organized a campaign . |
| 37 | Until a few years ago , only what was the London County Council , and is now the Inner London Education Authority , employed chartered librarians in schools , though counties such as Nottinghamshire , Somerset , and Cheshire have now followed suit . |
| 38 | In general elections we , we do n't normally know for sure until a few weeks beforehand what the date of the election is going to be . |
| 39 | However , a mother who is in contact with her baby immediately after delivery is much more likely to be able to do this than one who is not given her baby until a few hours after the birth . |
| 40 | In the manufacturing sector , an employer 's ability to pursue a strategy of using temporary workers depends on the availability of a body of labour which , until a few years ago , scarcely existed . |
| 41 | Appleton & Lange is part of the business , technical and professional group of Paramount Publishing , more familiar as Simon & Schuster until a few weeks ago , when Paramount Communications announced that it was changing the name of publishing group ( International News , 5th February ) . |
| 42 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 43 | No-one ever spends much time thinking about the longest holiday of their lifetime — retirement — until a few years before the big day actually arrives . |
| 44 | Sarah was keen to catch her brother up but did n't really get involved in the sport until a few years later whilst studying at Nottingham University . |
| 45 | Until a few hours before , they had no idea where they would be going . |
| 46 | Josselin 's reputation is based on the detailed diary which he kept from 5 August 1644 until a few days before his death . |
| 47 | Until a few years ago this test had not been performed in any species with a bizarre male form , and the theory remained a speculation , tentatively accepted by most ethologists in the absence of any plausible alternative . |
| 48 | Until a few years ago , the DMS was awarded to students satisfactorily completing a course at a college approved by the DES Committee to offer the Diploma in Management Studies or , in Scotland , by the Scottish Committee . |
| 49 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 50 | An unknown writer observing at the restoration work of 1887 says of the nave , the walls were found to be covered with old surface paintings , and Fielding in his Memories of Malling , writes , " In Halling Church until a few years ago existed the uncouth painting over the chancel arch , variously described as the tale of the unfaithful wife and the emblematic representation of the seven deadly sins . |
| 51 | Until a few years ago the parish had the right to nominate one person to the Aims Houses at Cobham , also known as Cobham College . |
| 52 | That is , until a few months later when Darnley and his page boy , whilst staying at Kirk o' Fields Palace , were killed in an explosion . |
| 53 | Until a few months ago . ’ |
| 54 | It is therefore right that , when analysing Labour 's current declared policy , we should look well at what , until a few months ago , that declared policy manifestly was . |
| 55 | Until a few years ago , consideration of race issues at policy levels was rare in most local authority social services departments , even in areas with substantial black populations . |
| 56 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |
| 57 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 58 | At the moment we are also paying for a specialist company to provide address labels in postcode order ( to quality for Presstream ) because until a few weeks ago the National Office computer could not do this task . |
| 59 | ‘ But until a few years ago you were chairman , Mr Glastonbury . ’ |
| 60 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |