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

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

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

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.

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

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 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, Côte-Rôtie never was a serious competitor of Hermitage, which was the only northern Rhône vineyard which was well-known far from the region.

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 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.