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Until the introduction of standardised containers, the majority of the town ’ s inhabitants were employed in the docks.
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Until the 1830s, the Pawnee in what became United States territory were relatively isolated from interaction with Europeans and escaped some of the losses due to introduction of Eurasian infectious diseases, such as measles, smallpox, and cholera, to which Native Americans had no immunity.
Until the introduction of the potato, whole forest-dwelling communities which had scarce access to wheat flour relied on chestnuts as their main source of carbohydrates.
Until the late 15th century introduction of the contratenor bassus, the tenor was usually the lowest voice, assuming the role of providing a harmonic foundation.
Until July 2010, the Neighbourhood Policing Team for Waterloo consisted of an Inspector, Sergeant, two Constables, Special Constables, and 13 PCSOs-this establishment was significantly increased by the introduction of the ' Neighbourhood Hub Team ' at Waterloo, involving police officers from London Underground.
Until the introduction of amber coloured Whitbread Gold Label in the 1950s, British barley wines were always dark in colour.
Until the introduction of the Countryside Bill in 1968, the main purpose of the Forestry Commission was to maximise timber sales.
Until the mid-19th century most fire engines were maneuvered by men, but the introduction of horse-drawn fire engines considerably improved the response time to incidents.
Until the 1910 introduction by Cadillac of the United States ' first closed-body car, the convertible was the primary body style.
Until the introduction of elected county councils in the 19th century, JPs, in Quarter Sessions, also administered the county at a local level.
Until the introduction of the LC, every color Mac had supported, at a minimum, 640x480.
Until the introduction of the cotton trade in 1769, Ashton was considered " bare, wet, and almost worthless ".
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Until the introduction of the new Harmony of the Gospel Readings for Holy Week in 1969, English-speaking members of the Moravian Church used the name " Passion Week " for Holy Week, a week much more closely associated with the Passion of Christ.
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Until the introduction of SGI Octane, SGI Indigo² was SGI's most powerful desktop solution for 3D, visualization and high performance computing environments.
Until the introduction of the roundarm style in the first half of the 19th century, bowling was performed in the same way as in bowls, the ball being delivered with the hand below the waist.
Until the introduction of Gmax, and a similar ' game modeler ' version of Maya soon after, amateur modelers had extremely limited access to the tools needed to do so.
Until the introduction of television into Australia in 1956, the peak hours for any radio station were 7. 00 pm-10. 00 pm-3AK was never able to take advantage of this peak listening period.
Until the introduction of Chip and PIN, all face-to-face credit or debit card transactions used a magnetic stripe or mechanical imprint to read and record account data, and a signature for verification.
Until the introduction of Sky HD in 2006, most Sky set-top boxes uses a standard 28. 8 kbit / s modem to pull content across the online link.
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.
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Until the exchange rates were standardised in the late 18th century each colony legislated its own different exchange rates.
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Until the 19th century the majority of battles were of short duration, many lasting a part of a day.
Until the 1900s, the majority of educated people in the West knew at least some Latin.
Until the beginning of the British Mandate in Palestine ( 1922 – 1948 ), the population was predominantly Arab Christian ( majority Orthodox Christians ), with an Arab Muslim minority.
Until the early 20th century, scientists assumed that the majority of synaptic communication in the brain was electrical.
Until 1911, Prime Ministers had to guide legislation through the Commons and the Lords and obtain a majority approval in both to translate it into law.
Until the 19th century, the vast majority of butter was made by hand, on farms.
Until 1995, the forecasts had been played at various times each hour, but are currently shown at times ending in " 8 ", hence the title of the local forecasts is " Local on the 8s " ( though local forecasts are reduced to once every half-hour when non-forecast programs are aired which is now a majority of the air day ).
Until 2008, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne were the only departments where the Communist Party had a majority in the general councils but the 2008 cantonal elections saw the socialists become the strongest group at the Seine-Saint-Denis general council ( while the Communist Party gained a majority in Allier ).
Until 2006 it was one of the Conservative party's safest seats, but the by-election of that year saw the party's electoral majority fall steeply from over 13, 000 ( in the 2005 election ) to just over 600 votes ( see below-" Election results ").
Until the 1960s, the majority of the Chinese population in Chinatown emigrated from Guangdong province and Hong Kong, thus they were native speakers of Cantonese, especially the Canton and Taishan dialects.
Until 2012, this had never been supported by a majority in the Storting but was constantly a matter of debate.
Until 1966, Punjab was a Hindu majority state ( 63. 7 %).
Until the 20th century the majority of the Sumatran population lived in the highlands.
Until the second half of the 20th century, the majority of Francophone Quebec workers lived below the poverty line and did not join the executive ranks of the businesses of their own province.
Until 2005, a discount cinema, owned by Cineplex Odeon was located outside the Phase I entrance to Galaxyland ; the majority of the space it occupied was bought out by skateboarding / snowboarding store West 49 which also built an indoor skatepark in the basement.
Until the announcement of NIST's AES contest, the majority of block ciphers followed the example of the DES in using a block size of 64 bits ( 8 bytes ).
Until the mid-9th century, relations between Muslims and the majority Christian population of Al-Andalus, were relatively cordial.
Until about 1900, the majority of Ireland was held by landlords, as much as 97 % in 1870, and rented out to tenant farmers who had to pay rent to landlords and taxes to the Church and State.
Until extremely close ridings were decided on the west coast, it appeared as though the Liberals ' seat total, if combined with that of the left-wing New Democratic Party ( NDP ), would be sufficient to hold a majority in the House of Commons.
Until the formation of the Premier League in 1992, the majority of Blackburn Rovers ' success was pre-1930 when they won the league twice and FA Cup six times.
Until 1805 the majority of villagers had strips in two large fields, as well as grazing rights on the wold, the moor and in Horse Pasture.
Until 1945 Silesian was also spoken in enclaves in Lower Silesia, as Lower Silesian, a German dialect, was spoken by the ethnic German majority population of that region at the time.
Until 1945 Ratibor remained German, and the majority of its inhabitants were Germans or Germanized Upper Silesians.
Until around 1850 in the United States, the vast majority of locomotives burned wood until most of the eastern forests were cleared.
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