Example sentences of "[adv] not until " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campbell concluded that we may not see the effect of economic recovery for at least a year — perhaps not until 1993 . |
| 2 | When somebody decides to redo the rooms and wants all the screens they 'll find out but probably not until then . ’ |
| 3 | But probably not until this evening . |
| 4 | In the final stages of decomposition this once-living ( organic ) matter , the third component , becomes jelly-like and is then , and correctly not until then , called ‘ humus ’ . |
| 5 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 6 | The magic 300 , which in the event proved a cannily accurate figure , was achieved briefly in 1912 and again in 1938 but then not until the swinging sixties , a time coincident with the Club 's finances stabilising . |
| 7 | I will be in the office tomorrow ( Wednesday 21st ) but then not until Monday 26th April . |
| 8 | At least not until the spring . |
| 9 | Changes in the aid given to poor petitioners in 1914 , together with the effects of World War I , produced an increase in the divorce rate after 1918 , but it was not until 1946 that legal aid became freely available and therefore not until 1951 that divorce petitions began to come from a cross section of the population . |