Until 1997, Colombia had enjoyed a fairly stable economy.

Until fairly recently, about the end of the Second World War, such weapons were characterized by a barrel length 15 to 25 times the caliber of the gun.

Until recent centuries, pilgrimage had been a fairly difficult and arduous adventure.

Until that time, rigid harmonic schemes had forced rhythmic patterns to stay fairly uncomplicated.

Until fairly recent times, the raiment of the Veddhas was remarkably scanty.

Until fairly recently, personal photocopying of library material was not permitted, as there was concern that copying and excessive handling would result in damage.

( Until fairly recently, the Scottish Divinity Faculty course on Church History ran from the Acts of the Apostles to 664 before resuming in 1560.

Until fairly recently, bachata was informally banned from Dominican radio and television.

Until then, Perez had been fairly successful in hiding his illness from the Puerto Rican public.

Until fairly recently it was assumed that our marine resources were limitless.

Until fairly recently, few Danish rock groups had been successful outside Denmark.

Until fairly modern times, all red gemstones were referred to as " rubies ".

Until fairly recently known only from the modern species and some fossil remains tentatively allocated to this group, a batch of Middle Jurassic ( Lower Callovian, c. 165 – 164 mya ) specimens found at La Voulte-sur-Rhône demonstrated that clearly vampyromorphid cephalopods were in existence for far longer than has been hitherto believed.

Until the introduction of digital sound, it was fairly common for 35 mm films to be blown up to 70 mm often just to take advantage of the greater number of sound tracks and the fidelity of the audio.

Until 1996 it was based on Glen Waverley and Mount Waverley, and was a fairly safe seat for the Liberal Party, but since then its boundaries have been extended southwards, making it a marginal Australian Labor Party seat.

Until fairly recently, China's political environment has made it difficult to properly gauge the extent of natural disasters.

Until the introduction of cheap mini-lathes by suppliers such as Warco, Harbor Freight, Grizzly and others, lathes produced by Myford or Bridgeport were fairly ubiquitous in model engineering.

Until fairly recently, San Antonio Winery was the only winery that operated within the city limits of Los Angeles.

Until the early 1990s, syndicated late-night talk shows were fairly common, due to NBC having the only network shows at the time.

Until fairly recently, Kehlen was a farming community with a few cottage industries.

Until fairly recently the Baigas practiced ' dahiya ' cultivation, that is, slash and burn.

Until the coming of the Ingleton Branch Line in 1861, these remote places were reachable only by walking over some fairly steep hills.

Until recently, SDF-1 and CXCR4 were believed to be a relatively " monogamous " ligand-receptor pair ( other chemokines tend to use several different chemokine receptors in a fairly " promiscuous " manner ).

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

Until recent years the Air Force suffered somewhat from fuel shortages ; a problem which was overcome in 2008.

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 recent development of flood control, Baghdad and other cities were subject to the threat of inundation.

Until recent years, the preservative thiomersal was used in many vaccines that did not contain live virus.

Until 1998, when world prices for tropical timber fell steeply, timber was Solomon Islands main export product, and, in recent years, Solomon Islands forests were dangerously overexploited.

Until their recent deaths modern-day artists such as R. C. Gorman, Bill Rane and J. D.

Until the 1980s, many of Austria's largest industry firms were nationalised ; in recent years, however, privatisation has reduced state holdings to a level comparable to other European economies.

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 the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold ' em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country.

Until recently, the stink badgers had been classified with the other badgers on the basis of physical examination, but genetic testing has proven correct those who believed stink badgers share a more recent common ancestor with skunks than they do with the weasel family ; stink badgers have therefore been transferred from the Mustelidae to the skunk family.

Until recent human colonisation that introduced rodents and cats, the only mammals found on the islands of New Zealand were three species of bat, one of which recently has become extinct.

Until about 1930, there was only one building ( part of Bath Road Farm ) on the north side of Bath Road between The Magpies ( an area around and opposite the north exit of the recent Heathrow Road ), and Longford ; other buildings were built afterwards there before WWII, including two factories ( Technicolor and Penguin Books ).

Until recent years, it was the location of the electric chair until this was replaced by lethal injection.

Until recent years, Indian artifacts were found frequently throughout Wenham, and a representative collection in the possession of the Wenham Museum.

Until recent times, there were several Indian Trail Trees in the area.

Until a highway was built in recent years linking Ourense with Vigo in the west and Benavente in the east, the only quick way for people to enter or leave the province was by railway.

Until the recent advent of non-invasive medical techniques, brain surgery was the preferred way for language researchers to discover how language works in the brain.

Until about 2001, Ely made appearances on popular TV shows, his most recent being Sheena and Renegade.

Until recent years there was no substantial evidence of related mathematical writing that might have preceded it, with the exception of mathematical work by those such as Jing Fang ( 78 – 37 BCE ), Liu Xin ( d. 23 ), and Zhang Heng ( 78 – 139 ) and the geometry clauses of the Mozi of the 4th century BCE.

Until recently it was thought that there were 28 cycles in the 309 years between 1699 and 2008, giving an average length of 11. 04 years, but recent research has showed that the longest of these ( 1784 – 1799 ) seems actually to have been two cycles, so that the average length is only around 10. 66 years.

Until the recent German spelling reform, the traditional rules ( which are still widely adhered to, although not taught in schools ) also capitalized the informal 2nd person singular pronoun Du ( and its derivatives, such as Dein ) when used in letters or similar texts, but this is no longer required.