Example sentences of "until [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It continued , in sometimes sporadic use , until shortly after the First World War , one of the last references coming in 1921 . |
| 2 | It was used in the Roman Empire until early in the thirteenth century , and in most of Western Europe until the twelfth . |
| 3 | Until early in the eighteenth century , moreover , foreign diplomats when given audience by the sultan were expected to wear a Turkish-style robe over their normal clothing in order to spare him the repellent sight of European dress . |
| 4 | But they were always , until far into the eighteenth century , a potentially negative factor . |
| 5 | In England , also , complaints of the difficulty of finding capable diplomats can be heard until far into the eighteenth century ; and many agreed to serve only to put the government under a moral obligation to find some acceptable post for them at home on their return . |
| 6 | The century following the Peace of Carlowitz ( Karlovci ) between the Habsburgs and the Turks in 1699 saw many changes in the relations among the European powers , some of which directly affected the South Slav peoples , and others which had delayed and indirect effects on them , the significance of which did not become apparent until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | No government which was known to enjoy the support of the Crown was defeated in a general election until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | An effort of this kind would have been quite beyond the office 's powers at any time until well into the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , until well into the twentieth century , the safe period was assumed to be at mid-month . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Peter was responsible for the introduction of a punitive practice which was to remain at the centre of the tsarist criminal code and of the Siberian penal system until well into the twentieth century . |
| 11 | Extra time was deadlocked until well into the second period when both Bolton full-backs moved up , Cowdrill passed square to Brown and a powerful long-range strike hurtled past Digby . |
| 12 | Decisions made over the next three months seem certain to shape the future of work and play in Britain until well into the next century . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's very hard to predict because the costs are coming down rapidly , but I ca n't see it being an economic proposition until well into the next century , ’ Shah concludes . |
| 14 | He launched what became ( from February 1666 ) the London Gazette , which remained the government newspaper until well into the next century . |
| 15 | The Clean Air Act of 1970 set out to create a healthy atmosphere for the population within less than a decade , but even by the 1990s this has not been achieved and it is now expected that some urban areas will not achieve healthy air until well into the next century . |
| 16 | Is not the position that the United Kingdom will remain a very substantial oil producer until well into the next century ? |
| 17 | Many of the reserves that were not then technically capable of being produced economically will come on stream and , in my view , will ensure that we are a major oil producer until well into the next century . |
| 18 | Pozdyshev also reaffirmed that Russia plans to keep its Chernobyl-type reactors in operation until well into the next century " after making the necessary safety changes " . |
| 19 | On the Talbot estate of Whitchurch in North Shropshire entry fines were lower in the early fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , and there was a decline in the rents paid for demesne lands after 1400 , and little sign of recovery until well into the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | Robert 's own Christian name , as we know , had come from his maternal grandfather , Robert Hasted , and he passed it on to his second child , Robert Edward ; thereafter the same name would continue in that branch of the family until well into the 20th century . |
| 21 | The house was used for the making of cloth until well into the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | It displays a method of building which was so logical and so satisfactory that it was used from the end of the fourteenth century until well into the eighteenth . |
| 23 | Peace did not really reign again at Hatfield Chase until well into the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | But ceremonial and precedence none the less remained until well into the eighteenth century a factor of importance in international relations . |
| 25 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 26 | The theory that continents drifted about was proposed long ago by the German geophysicist Alfred Wegener , but most people laughed at him until well after the Second World War . |
| 27 | When it was formed in 1919 AIB was a branch of the old Air Ministry which controlled civil aviation as well as the Royal Air Force , and it remained in that department until immediately after the Second World War when the Ministry of Civil Aviation was formed . |
| 28 | Apart from the Harris 's hawks , we did n't get a chance to pick up any more birds until late on the second day . |
| 29 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |
| 30 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |