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Example sentences for "until recently"

  • England offers a good field to investigate this point, because Oxford and Cambridge, her two great universities, turn out most of the eminent men of the country, or at least have done so until recently.

  • Until recently it has been impossible, because of the defective registration of vital statistics in the United States, to get figures which show the extent of the problem of urban sterilization.

  • In European practice, until recently, cast iron was used with apparently satisfactory results.

  • Until recently, the high cost of barium hydrate has rendered its use prohibitive but at the present it is obtained as a by-product in cement manufacture and it may be purchased at a more reasonable figure than heretofore.

  • Until recently, the important consideration in the burning of blast furnace gas has been the capacity that can be developed with practically no attention given to the aspect of efficiency.

  • But this reënforcement of the substance of American national life has, until recently, found an adequate expression in the increasing scope and efficiency of the Federal government.

  • And under our traditional political system there was, until recently, no effective way of correcting his preference.

  • A] Until recently immigrants to this country were "bought" in great numbers.

  • The right to present them, and the power of Congress to grant their prayer, were, until recently, unquestioned.

  • The result is that, until recently, the lower ranges of employment were wholly unsupervised, and the higher circles never felt the necessity of devising industrial reforms and benefits.

  • Until recently, however, the Jew in America has not cared for the land.

  • Her life, she reflected, had held, until recently, but little of happiness.

  • As a motion picture star, she had the satisfaction of knowing that she was paid a slightly larger salary than had been, until recently, received by the President of the United States.

  • Until recently, the observation and study of the phenomena of the solar system almost exclusively occupied the labors of astronomers.

  • It was, however, impossible, until recently, to predicate the same uniformity in the great laws of the universe respecting the starry worlds, except by a feeble analogy.

  • I have said that the stars have always been held, until recently, to have no annual parallax; yet it may be observed that astronomers were not exactly agreed on this point.

  • But a still more conspicuous evidence of Japanese deficiency of sympathy is the use, until recently, of public torture.

  • In Japan, until recently, little effort has been made to keep out of sight objects and acts which we of the West have considered disagreeable and repulsive.

  • But modern geologists have, until recently, supposed that the traces of Noah's deluge might still be seen upon the earth's surface.

  • The prevalent opinion, until recently, has been, that we are there taught that the world began to exist on the first of the six days of creation, or about six thousand years ago.

  • With regard to restrictions from which women at present suffer, one dental hospital only is open to women in London, and, until recently, no posts could be obtained.

  • This, until recently, respectable English women disliked to do.

  • Activities which, until recently,[1] were associated only with institutions distinctly religious in character, are now regularly connected with the work of primary schools.

  • This has been a bane, because it has, until recently, prevented the concentration of effort which might lead to grand results and schools.

  • It was not their fault that, until recently, those influences were conventional, and based upon a false perception of the principles of art.

  • The knowledge of fossil plants and of the history of the vegetable kingdom has, until recently, been so fragmentary that it seemed hopeless to attempt a detailed treatment of the subject of this little book.

  • Until recently I had regarded the latter view as more probable, and so stated the matter in the second edition of "Acadian Geology.

  • Little definite information, however, has, until recently, been obtained with regard to their habit of growth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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