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 the advent of genetic techniques like DNA sequencing, comparative anatomy together with embryology were the primary tools for understanding phylogeny, as exemplified by the work of Alfred Romer.

Until modern DNA analysis of the islanders and their ancestors, this was key scientific evidence that the moai had been carved by the Rapa Nui and not by a separate group from South America.

Until recently, the majority view has been that much of the DNA is " junk "— DNA that is never transcribed and has no biological function.

Until the new DNA data is available – and even then only if it would show a significant difference -, it is really a matter of opinion whether one follows a lumper or a splitter approach.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

Until such evidence appears, we must make do with the evidence we have.

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 has a been a dearth of strong evidence that supports this form of speciation, with a general feeling that interbreeding would soon eliminate any genetic differences that might appear.

Until the 17th century, there is evidence of scholars ( including Thomas Ken ) matriculating at Hart Hall while waiting for a vacancy at New College.

Until further evidence comes to light, it is impossible to support or deny the claim that Arthur Atkins was responsible for the start of the practice and thus the origin of the paintings remains uncertain.

" Until recently, it was thought that food webs had little nested structure, but empirical evidence shows that many published webs have nested subwebs in their assembly.

Until the late Republic, evidence suggests that women usually bathed in a separate wing or facility, or that women and men were scheduled at different times.

Until the Roman Empire came under Christian rule, there is only limited evidence of legal penalties against men who were presumably " homosexual " in the modern sense.

Until recently, there was little evidence for anything but an early and short Roman occupation of Cornwall.

Until the Ottoman conquest of Bosnia, there is evidence of three Christian denominations in Bosnia: Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic and an indigenous church known as the Bosnian Church.

Until recently, brown adipose tissue was thought to be primarily limited to infants in humans, but new evidence has now overturned that belief.

Until 1945 treason had its own rules of evidence and procedure which made it difficult to prosecute accused traitors, such as the need for two witnesses to the same offence.

Until recently, he was thought to have been born in 1686, but recent evidence suggests that he was in fact born the following year.

Until now, no experimental or observational evidence of extra dimensions has been officially reported.

Until then, the only evidence had been a mention in the 1471 testament of Ruprecht of the Palatinate, Archbishop of Cologne.

Until recently, there was no evidence that the presence of suicide hotlines reduced the incidence of suicide.

Until recently, there was scant evidence supporting immune hypotheses, but research into the role of immune response and neuroinflammation may have important clinical and therapeutic implications.

Until further evidence is obtained, the Kting Voar's existence as a real species should remain questionable ( Galbreath & Melville, 2003 ).

Until more substantial evidence about the Crofton graves can be gathered, there is no reason to suggest that the Bedwyn location, for an obscure 7th century battle, is little more than a myth.

Until 1949, a confession had been a solid evidence under the law, even if the police tortured a person to extract a confession.