Until 1997, Colombia had enjoyed a fairly stable economy.

Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing and tools.

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 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 recently, art has withstood the pressure of chaotic things.

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Until quite recently, `` sterile '' maggots could be bought to apply to a wound ; ;

Until recently, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television.

Planning may involve the development of biological identification systems. Until recently in the United States, most biological defense strategies have been geared to protecting soldiers on the battlefield rather than ordinary people in cities.

Until recently, it was believed that some experiments showed the existence of pentaquarks — " exotic " baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark.

Until recently, for example, cladograms like the following have generally been accepted as accurate representations of the ancestral relations among turtles, lizards, crocodilians, and birds:

Until recently they were widely believed to be fungi, but structural and molecular evidence has led to their reclassification as heterokonts, related to autotrophic brown algae and diatoms.

Until recently there were restrictions on the import of bananas to Greece, therefore bananas were grown on the island, predominantly in greenhouses.

Until recently, it was a widespread practice for Taiwanese people to hang portraits of Chiang in their homes.

Until recently, however, the musician / composer rarely had the capability of real-time modification of program code itself.

Until recently, however, Chagas disease was considered a contraindication for the procedure, since the heart damage could recur as the parasite was expected to seize the opportunity provided by the immunosuppression that follows surgery.

Until recently, catapults were used by thrill-seekers to experience being catapulted through the air.

Until recently, Hume was seen as a forerunner of the logical positivist movement ; a form of anti-metaphysical empiricism.

Until recently it was unknown how many species of Diprotodon had existed.

Until recently this prevented the technique from being more widely adopted, but software emulations of rythmo band technology overcome the disadvantages of the traditional rythmo band process and significantly reduce the time needed to prepare a dubbing session.

Until recently, photovoltaics were most commonly used in remote sites where there is no access to a commercial power grid, or as a supplemental electricity source for individual homes and businesses.

Until recently, the Convention was also overseen by a European Commission on Human Rights.

Until recently there was no genetic transfection vector available for this organism and detailed study at the cellular level was not possible.

Until recently, many researchers believed phocids evolved separately from otariids and odobenids from otter-like animals, such as Potamotherium, which inhabited European freshwater lakes.

Until recently, before the accession of Free Mobile in Junary 2012, the number of physical mobile phone operators was very limited.

Until recently, fur seals were all grouped under a single subfamily of Pinnipedia, called Arctocephalinae, to contrast them with Otariinae – the sea lions – based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs.

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 recently, gorillas were considered to be a single species, with three subspecies: the western lowland gorilla, the eastern lowland gorilla and the mountain gorilla.

Until quite recently, many Hudson's Bay Company stores were the only stores in remote towns.