Example sentences of "not until the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adherence to this stated principle has never faltered , but other areas of concern took precedence and it was not until the late 1970s that this area of work was developed . |
| 2 | Firstly , it was not until the 1930s that a substantial sector of education arose which was not directly under church control . |
| 3 | Unequivocal though that statement was , it was not until the |
| 4 | East resigned , Rowlands returned , but not until the junior vice-president , Rhys Williams , had tendered his resignation . |
| 5 | Not until the years of fast industrialization and construction were these defects to be remedied . |
| 6 | Not until the spring and summer of 1989 when , for the first time , the Thatcher government showed clear signs of frailty , with electoral defeats , economic difficulties , and internal acrimony which recalled the later years of Macmillan 's government in the early 1960s , did the critics begin to regain their confidence . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 8 | Not until the end of 1981 did she begin to fight free of their domination . |
| 9 | Footballers sometimes appeared on a music-hall bill in the late Victorian and Edwardian years but it was not until the inter-war years that top players became ‘ stars ’ . |
| 10 | But it was not until the early 1930s that The Allegory of Love began to take shape as a book , and it was not finished until 1935 . |
| 11 | INTERNATIONAL Salomon Brothers report predicts recovery for European hotels , but not until the end of 1991 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At least not until the spring . |
| 14 | The priest 's home was usually near the church , it was not until the eighteenth century when services became more infrequent that it was thought proper for the priest to become established in a big house , perhaps on a distant part of the glebe , and live with much of the dignity of a squire . |
| 15 | It was not until the political and economic Thatcher revolution of the 1980s , in which the creation of wealth was given priority over its equitable distribution , that a start could be made in reestablishing British influence in world affairs , although this process has been beset with the economic problems of the late 1980s . |
| 16 | It was not until the 1960s , when ‘ think-tank ’ entered the popular vocabulary , that these bodies became a natural bridge between universities and government . |
| 17 | As the twentieth century progressed the debate limped on , but it was not until the early 1960s that the tunnel became a serious prospect again . |
| 18 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 19 | It was not until the 1880s that a number of new factors operating together began to change the prospect for the better . |
| 20 | It was not until the 1930s that a more effective fascist organization , the British Union of Fascists ( BUF ) , was formed under the leadership of Oswald Mosley , at a time when Britain was attempting to deal with the unemployment of between 20 and 23 per cent . |
| 21 | Scotland had of course been embroiled in the long-standing hostility between England and France before ; but not until the 1540s and 1550s did these powers actually try to determine the government and internal affairs of the country . |
| 22 | Although the Vatican has records of a physic garden in 1277 , it was not until the sixteenth century that centres of learning , first in Italy and then elsewhere , began to establish their gardens of medicinal plants . |
| 23 | It was not until the early years of the twentieth century that they had devised a formula for their boot polish which was marketed later under the name of ‘ Cherry Blossom Boot Polish ’ which became such a success , being sold at one penny per tin . |
| 24 | The magic 300 , which in the event proved a cannily accurate figure , was achieved briefly in 1912 and again in 1938 but then not until the swinging sixties , a time coincident with the Club 's finances stabilising . |
| 25 | It was not until the late 1700s that woodland was replaced substantially with farmland . |
| 26 | Golby returned later with other officers to search the surrounding area , but it was not until the following morning that the terribly mutilated body of Inspector Joseph Drewitt was discovered . |
| 27 | It was not until the famous Hertfordshire Blizzard of 1915 , when Shaw went out and worked with the menfolk sawing up trees that lay blocking the roads , and the Zeppelin Raid the following year ( which he incorporated into his play Heartbreak House ) , when he offered his cellar as a shelter , that the villagers grew friendly with him . |
| 28 | Indeed , in the early stages of the contest much was made of the lightweight nature of the public support Heseltine received ( it was not until the run up to the second ballot , when Mrs Thatcher was out of the race , that he received public support from Lawson and Howe ) . |
| 29 | It was not until the UN Conference on Population in Bucharest in 1973 that a more radical critique of family planning programmes was launched and widely discussed at international level . |
| 30 | However , it was not until the 1960s that most of the gaslamps in Prague were converted to electricity . |