Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

Until recent years, few people without some genuine claim to fame wrote or published autobiographies for the general public.

Until 2005-2006 broadband access ( mostly using ADSL ) was available only in a few major cities in Belarus.

Until Jefferson, very few artists had recorded solo voice and blues guitar, the first of which was vocalist Sara Martin and guitarist Sylvester Weaver.

Until a few weeks later, the guilt for the crime had settled loosely on Serbia in general.

Until recently, the Preclassic was regarded as a formative period, consisting of small villages of farmers who lived in huts and few permanent buildings, but this notion has been challenged by recent discoveries of monumental architecture from that period, such as an altar in La Blanca, San Marcos, from 1000 BC ; ceremonial sites at Miraflores and El Naranjo from 801 BC ; the earliest monumental masks ; and the Mirador Basin cities of Nakbé, Xulnal, El Tintal, Wakná and El Mirador.

Until the 13th century, icons followed a broadly similar pattern in West and East-although very few survive from this early from either tradition.

Until then, Malta had very few industries except the cotton, tobacco, and shipyards industry.

Until the 20th century, only a few hundred meteorite finds had ever been discovered.

Until 1978 the pope's election was followed in a few days by the Papal Coronation.

Until 2000, it was thought that rock sequences spanning the Permian-Triassic boundary were too few and contained too many gaps for scientists to determine reliably its details.

Until the 19th century, few doubted the truth of the postulate ; instead debate centered over whether it was necessary as an axiom, or whether it was a theory that could be derived from the other axioms.

Until after Wilde's death his name remained disgraced and few discussed, let alone performed, his work.

Until the construction boom of the late 1970s, relatively few modern buildings had been constructed.

Until recently, very few studies were conducted that were focused specifically on the putamen.

Until that time Eastwood had been an American television actor with few credited film roles.

Until 2010, the final location of Lunokhod 1 was uncertain by a few kilometers.

Until a few years ago the ubiquity of 35 mm movie projectors in commercial movie theaters made it the only motion picture format, film or video, that could be played in almost any cinema in the world.

Until the 2nd century AD, torture was used only on slaves ( with a few exceptions ).

Until the late 1920s, few if any other events used the term.

" Until 1943, few Americans objected to Soviet aid.

were champions of Cornwall in 1955 / 56 and have been in existence over a hundred years ; their most notable player was Harry Cann who was goalkeeper for Plymouth Argyle F. C .. Until the 1930s there were two golf courses and a few tennis courts: neither golf course reopened in the postwar period.

Until a few decades previously, the ship operated under another name as a normal GSV, providing a habitat for a vast number of Culture citizens.

Until modern times, cloves grew only on a few islands in the Maluku Islands ( historically called the Spice Islands ), including Bacan, Makian, Moti, Ternate, and Tidore.

Until a few years had exhibitions in Castilian Jotas in the Alameda de la Fuencisla in the arrival of the Virgin ; but recently Castilian Jotas are danced in the Azoguejo own.

Until recently, the consensus has been that economic mining of the ocean depths might be decades away.

Until recent decades, Somerset's reputation with historians was high, in view of his many proclamations that appeared to back the common people against a rapacious landowning class.

Until a few decades ago, Abruzzo was a region of poverty in Southern Italy ; over the past decades, however, it has developed to such an extent that it has escaped from the spiral of underdevelopment to become the ' first ' region of the ' Italian Mezzogiorno '.

Until the mid-20th century, it was not readily apparent at the time of discovery whether a body has been buried in a bog for years, decades, or centuries.

Until other forms of gambling became legal in Arkansas four decades later, Oaklawn Park, a thoroughbred horse racing track south of downtown, was the only legal gambling establishment in Hot Springs and one of only two in the state of Arkansas ; the other was the Southland Greyhound Park dog track in West Memphis.

Until 2006, the average international price of food had been largely stable for several decades.

Until today, thrillers do borrow themes and elements from those in the past decades.

Until he overthrew the civilian government in 1999, he pursued a military career for two decades.

Until 2009, the State Senate had been in Republican hands for decades.

Until recent decades, it has been the story of what might be called classic cryptography — that is, of methods of encryption that use pen and paper, or perhaps simple mechanical aids.

Until the end of the lease period ( often measured in decades or centuries ; a 99 year lease is quite common ) the leaseholder has the right to remain in occupation as an assured tenant paying an agreed rent to the owner.

Until recent decades, it was the most common method for solving such problems.

Until recent decades, Mei Pass was an important thoroughfare for the overland trade south to Guangdong, as well as a militarily significant boundary.

Until several decades ago, most of the population was employed in the fields which surround the village.

Until the last few decades the Bougarabou was played only one at a time, usually with one hand and a stick, but in the last pooly generation or two ( since the 1940s ), possibly influenced from congueros in the western hemisphere, players play multiple drum setups.

Until a few decades ago, good plate glass that would allow a clear view without bubbles or ripples was made by drawing glass from a furnace in strips, rolling it to the desired thickness, grinding it flat, and polishing it on both sides.

Until December 2011, KGO operated for several decades as a news and call-in talk station, originating nearly all of its own programming locally.

Until a few decades ago, a further important branch of industry here was cloth manufacturing, but this was unable to survive due to competition from large international corporations.

A notable exception to this protocol is the custom followed by older graduating classes of the United States Military Academy at West Point: Until recent decades, Academy graduates wore their rings on the left hand in observance of the ancient belief, which also underlay the Anglo-American and Jewish custom of wearing wedding bands on the left hand, that a nerve connects the left ring finger to the heart.

Until recent decades ' developments in neighboring rural dialects, this was an easy way of distinguishing them from the Bergen dialect.

Until the end of the Cold War, the memories of the Congo haunted the UN as well as convinced the international organization that peacekeeping should remain consensual and non-threatening in nature, an attitude it maintained for almost three decades.

Until some decades ago, most of the monks used to stay at this metochi as there was no water and electricity at the top of the hill, and only two or three monks used to stay at the top.