Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] until [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Herdwick sheep , who withstand wind and weather on the fells with their ‘ heafing ’ property of returning to base , were not so named until the 18th Century , the name ‘ Herdwyke ’ previously referring to the abbey sheep farms . |
| 2 | Thus , if Brazil was already the major producer of coffee , the state of São Paulo , which is predominantly identified with this crop in our century , as yet harvested only about a quarter of the production of Rio and at most a fifth of the entire country ; about half the production of Indonesia and only about twice as much as Ceylon , where the development of tea-culture was still so negligible that exports were not separately registered until the second half of the 1870s , and then in tiny quantities . |
| 3 | Just wait until the last day , when you come , you sit down on the fucking stool and each leg goes like that ! |
| 4 | Business generally increased until the First World War when tonnages dropped away . |
| 5 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 6 | I usually wait until the next day when the painting is thoroughly dry , when it will accept the light colour perfectly . |
| 7 | Fortunately , in-foal mares usually ‘ do ’ well and will not cost more to feed until the last three months . |
| 8 | As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement . |
| 9 | It began when a respected local historian , Norman Scarfe , claimed in the East Anglia Daily Times that , in the rumour-filled summer of 1940 when Britain faced an imminent Nazi invasion , a War Office file on the evacuation of the civilian population from the hamlet was mysteriously sealed until the next century . |
| 10 | The first two years of study there will normally involve between three and six subjects rather than the one , two or three typical of the English university , and specialization does not really begin until the third year of the honours course . |
| 11 | The outcome had remained finely poised until the last months of Henry 's reign , when the conservative cause was seriously damaged by the actions of Norfolk 's son , the Earl of Surrey . |
| 12 | Well done Matt , well done , better doing it now then wait until the last bloody minute when we 're outside the school |
| 13 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 14 | We unpacked our bags , and then relaxed until the next morning . |
| 15 | Such practices outraged the leading churchmen of the day , but they were so popular that they were not completely suppressed until the fifteenth century . |
| 16 | He said it was a tactical kind of game , a bit like ‘ a friendly form of warfare ’ where the game was never won until the last shot . |
| 17 | The most precious opals , including black opals the rainbow colours of which are set off against a sombre background , are those from the opal fields of Australia opened as lately as 1872 but not seriously exploited until the twentieth century . |
| 18 | Prescription charges were not actually introduced until the next Conservative government in 1951 . |