Example sentences of "n't until the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until the mid-16th century that corks began to appear again . |
| 2 | It was n't until the next day someone heard him shouting and came to his rescue . |
| 3 | It was n't until the 1970s , however , that accidents began to occur in reactors designed on a production line basis to provide a major source of electricity . |
| 4 | The gig continued but was effectively overshadowed by the possibility of impending disaster and it was n't until the encores of ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and ‘ Barbarism Begins At Home ’ that they slipped into the comfort of early promise . |
| 5 | She got told off for being late , but it was n't until the next day that Sally 's parents were phoned by the school who had heard about a gang of young people being at the hospital the previous night . |
| 6 | It was n't until the early 1950s that ferreters began to receive the benefits of locator systems . |
| 7 | As their appointment was n't until the afternoon , Sukey Benedict asked them to lunch beforehand . |
| 8 | The police did n't inform the British Consulate about Jeremy 's disappearance until October 30 , and it was n't until the next day that the consulate contacted Jeremy 's grandmother in England . |
| 9 | It was n't until the weekend that he started to pine for some entertainment other than the sight of himself in the bathroom mirror . |
| 10 | It was n't until the late 1960s and early 1970s , however , that one of the most experienced of fly geneticists , Seymour Benzer , and his students , notably Chip Quinn at Yale and Yadin Dudai , now in Jerusalem , began studying Drosophila behaviour in some detail as the opening shot in a programme to try to identify mutants with abnormal behaviour and , in particular , abnormal capacities to show forms of learning and memory . |
| 11 | It was n't until the early 1980s , though , that convincing evidence for classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflexes could be obtained . |
| 12 | It was n't until the beginning of 1969 that they realized the paper could provide them with a regular income . |
| 13 | We drove back across the States at the end of the summer of 1941 and then waited until we could get a passage home , which was n't until the following March . |
| 14 | And it was n't until the end of the Second World War that the tiny trees made it to the west . |
| 15 | Smith and Steve Mardenborough both limped off and it was n't until the 62nd minute that the home keeper was tested by a 25-yard floater from Mitch Cook . |
| 16 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 17 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |