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

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

Until the 19th century, large crystals of mica were quite rare and expensive as a result of the limited supply in Europe.

Until the 1960s, paleomaps were not very satisfactory, since it was difficult to understand many quite distinctive features.

Until the end of the 18th century, the written language used in Ukraine was quite different from the spoken, which is one of the key difficulties in tracing the origin of the Ukrainian language more precisely.

Until quite recently, the Reform movement felt secure and was not leveling the same attacks on the Orthodox.

Until 1918, the British prime minister's powers had been theoretically quite limited and, as a member of the cabinet, the office-holder was regarded strictly as primus inter pares.

Until 2008 there had never been any Grand Prix races run in the dark but that doesn ’ t stop this unusual mod from being quite pleasurable.

Until quite recently Teton County voted Republican along with most other Eastern Idaho counties.

Until 1980 the development was quite conservative, but from the years 1980-85 there was a significant growth and new hotels, apartments, cabins, restaurants and shops have been built alongside the development of new activities and attractions.

Until now, it has been quite common for a player to play for two counties during the course of a single season.

Until the recent building of highways, transport from these plains to either the coast or inland was quite arduous, and thus each locality remained an isolated culture of its own.

Until the 1950s sidecars were quite popular, providing a cheap alternative to passenger cars ; they have also been used by armed forces, police and the UK's AA and RAC motoring organisations.

Until quite recently, the maps produced by the Geographers ' ( A-Z ) Map Company did not list their publication date, so dating them can be quite hard.

Until the early 1960s, residential buildings were quite restricted.

Until comparatively recently, plastic springs were not possible, but advances in polymer properties make them quite practical.

Until quite recently, the far south-west corner of Holmer Green around the appropriately-named Wycombe Road was actually a part of Hughenden parish, Wycombe District and therefore Wycombe constituency.

Until the Napoleonic Wars the European armies were quite small for a number of reasons: disease, the quality of food and medicine and the levée en masse ( mass conscription ) had not yet been introduced.

Until the late 1980s, $ 2 bills were quite common in Europe with military personnel.

Until late in the 20th century, prosopagnosia was thought to be quite rare and solely associated with brain injury or neurological illness affecting specific areas of the brain.

Until quite recently, Archway did not designate a specific area.

Until recently, and still quite commonly, eyepieces of a short-focal length have had a short eye relief.

Until quite recently the development of the pre-Norman kingship of Ireland has been expressed in simplistic terms, with both unionist and nationalist historians — for their own respective purposes — happy to portray pre-Norman Ireland as an immutable hierarchy of kings.

Until recently, art has withstood the pressure of chaotic things.

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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.