Example sentences of "until [adj] when a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It drove a scoop wheel of 28 foot diameter which could raise 25 tons of water a minute , and was used until 1940 when a diesel engine and centrifugal pump replaced it , until the station was closed in 1980 .
2 All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate .
3 The sinking was forgotten until 1977 when a M. Pearn sent a press-cutting recording the event to the Gosport Museum .
4 No more were found until 1961 when a party from the Soviet Union discovered two fragments of a broken nickel-iron meteorite lying in a glacial moraine near Lazarev Base .
5 This pattern was worn until 1959 when a merger with The Somerset Light Infantry resulted in The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry being established ; since then the plain white metal bugle-horn of the light infantry has been worn .
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