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 he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

Until 1928 it was directed by a General Manager, after this time instead by a Governor elected by an internal commission of managers, with a decree from the President of the Italian Republic for a term of 7 years.

Until 2003 the Lower Houses were restricted to upper year students but with the double cohort of graduates from Ontario schools many of the rooms were transformed into doubles and now hold first years.

Until about 50, 000 – 40, 000 years ago the use of stone tools seems to have progressed stepwise.

Until Henry's time, Cape Bojador remained the most southerly point known to Europeans on the unpromising desert coast of Africa, although the Periplus of the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator described a journey farther south about 2, 000 years earlier.

Until about 1750, in large part due to malnutrition, life expectancy in France was about 35 years, and only slightly higher in England.

Until the year 2000 the proportion of children 0 – 14 years of age was over 40 % of the total population.

Until about 400 years ago, however, motion was explained from a very different point of view.

Until recently, the last woolly mammoths were generally assumed to have vanished from Europe and southern Siberia about 12, 000 years ago, but new findings show some were still present there about 10, 000 years ago.

Until then, Valéry had, briefly, earned his living at the Ministry of War before assuming the relatively flexible post as assistant to the increasingly impaired Lebey, a job he held for some twenty years.

Until the late years of the Soviet Union, political science as a field was subjected to tight control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Until the 216th assembly met in Richmond, Virginia in 2004, the General Assembly met once a year ; since 2004, the General Assembly has met biennially in even-numbered years.

Until the late nineteenth century sugar was purchased in loaves, which had to be cut using implements called ' nips ', while in later years, bags of sugar became more common.

Until 2008 this medal had been awarded every 50 years by the Linnean Society of London.

Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

Until the late Pleistocene, about 10, 000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans.

Until 1952, the Naturalization Acts written by Congress still allowed only white persons to become naturalized as citizens ( except for two years in the 1870s which the Supreme Court declared to be a mistake ).

Until a few years ago the ubiquity of 35 mm movie projectors in commercial movie theaters made it the only motion picture format, film or video, that could be played in almost any cinema in the world.

** Until about 100 years ago, thousands of women and children in England were employed in plaiting straw for making hats.

Until recently, fossil findings indicated that grasses evolved around 55 million years ago.