Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] not [verb] until [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shops did n't open until 10 and it was only 9.30 . |
| 2 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 3 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 4 | But those circumstances did not arise until four years later , when I was not with my immediate family all the time , but away at boarding-school , the Malory Towers of my dreams . |
| 5 | There were comparatively few incomers and they were dispersed among the native population ( estate building for incomers did not peak until 1976 , and none existed before 1974 ) . |
| 6 | Royal Brass commemorative horse-brasses did not appear until Victorian times and , in any case , the shape can not be described as traditional . |
| 7 | This would explain why single-celled organisms appeared 3500 years ago , but complex creatures such as mammals and reptiles did not appear until 500 million years ago . |
| 8 | Dinosaurs and the great reptiles did not appear until one year ago , when the planet was 45 . |
| 9 | ‘ Moreover ’ , it says , ‘ in the last recessionary cycle the peak in business failures did not occur until some 18 months after the recession ended and even then the level of insolvencies did not reduce significantly for a further years . ’ |
| 10 | A proper understanding of the electron and other spin-1/2 particles did not come until 1928 , when a theory was proposed by Paul Dirac , who later was elected to the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge ( the same professorship that Newton had once held and that I now hold ) . |
| 11 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |
| 12 | Railways did n't arrive until 1853 with the inaugural locomotive supplied by Kitson of Leeds . |
| 13 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |