Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the islands used to be an important refuelling and provisioning station for ships from Europe to the Indian Ocean.

Until further information is derived from the bidding, assume that a typical opening hand by partner contains 7 losers, e. g., has 7 losers ( 1 + 2 + 2 + 2

Until the formal opening of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 1 October 2009, life peers created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act were known as " Lords of Appeal in Ordinary " or in common parlance " Law Lords ".

Until the opening of the bridge, built to the east of the two tunnels, the crossing was known as the Dartford Tunnel.

Until 1974 the crown jewels were also displayed at the opening of the Riksdag ( Parliament ).

Until the opening of the Thames Barrier in 1984, a portable building near the north of the tunnel was used as a flood control headquarters for the Greater London Council.

Until the 1980s there was a branch of Lloyds Bank, with limited opening hours towards the end.

Until the opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow on 27 March 2008, Heathrow Express also served Terminal 4, but this has now been discontinued and Terminal 4 is now the terminus for the Heathrow Express Terminal 4 ' shuttle ' ( Mondays to Saturdays ) and the Heathrow Connect instead.

Until the opening of the Port of Fremantle in 1900,

Until the opening of the Cross Harbour Tunnel in 1972, the Star Ferry remained the main means of public transportation between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon side.

Until the opening of the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge in 1911, this was the lowest bridging point on the Tees.

Until the end of the 1990s, the company operated only in Slovenia, but then it started to spread on other markets by opening new hypermarkets in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

Until the opening of the Forth Replacement Crossing in 2016, the M90's most substantial engineering feature shall remain the Friarton Bridge in Perth, a tall concrete pillared structure which traverses the River Tay.

Until the opening of the CBC Regional Broadcast Centre in the 1970s, the offices and broadcast studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Vancouver bureau were on the mezzanine floor of the hotel, overlooking the corner of Hornby and Georgia.

Until the opening of the National School in Hawridge in 1874 education was provided in the village by a straw plaiting school also mentioned in a Select Committee report of 1819.

Until around the time of the arrival of the Cheshire Lines Committee railway and the opening of Irlam railway station, in 1873, Irlam remained a largely undeveloped village, on the southern edge of the peat bog known as Chat Moss.

Until the opening of the colliery in 1952, the greatest social change in Calverton ’ s history had been arguably the parliamentary enclosure of 1778-80.

Until March 13, 2004, it covered 393 km between its two termini ; however, with the opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen on March 13, the section between Yatsushiro and Sendai was transferred to the third-sector Hisatsu Orange Railway Company.

Until the opening of the new motorway in June 2010, Kells stood as a busy junction town on the old N3 road with over 18, 000 vehicles passing through the town each day.

Until the opening of the Canberra Theatre Centre in 1965, the Albert Hall was home to a large number of prominent organisations, including the Canberra Orchestral Society ( later the Canberra Symphony Orchestra ) founded in 1950, a new Canberra Philharmonic Society ( for musical theatre, 1951 ) and the Canberra Choral Society ( 1952 ).

Until the opening of the airport in Yangyang County, Sokcho had its own airport, linking the city to Seoul.

Until the freeway is complete, US 31 follows a stretch of Napier Avenue, which was upgraded in conjunction with the St. Joseph Valley Parkway opening to that point, westward to I-94.

Until 1968, the price was fixed only once a day, when a second fixing was introduced at 3 p. m. to coincide with the opening of the US markets, as the price of gold was no longer under control of the Bank of England, a result of the collapse of the London Gold Pool.

Until the opening of the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in 1952 it was the main airport of Helsinki and all Finland.

Until the 1970s it was one of the theaters where major Broadway producers would premiere their shows before opening in New York.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

Until the new faculty member, Dr. Newsome, is assigned to teach at least one course, his details cannot be recorded.

Until 2009, when the new constitution came into force and created the Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the islands was the Legislative Council, which had existed since the 19th century.

Until then, previously issued FIPS place codes, renamed " Census Code ," will continue to be used, with the Census bureau assigning new codes as needed for their internal use during the transition.

Until recently, the Principality's banking laws permitted banks to issue numbered accounts, but new regulations require strict know-your-customer practices for all accounts.

Until a new stadium ( what would become the Kingdome ) was ready, the Pilots would play at Sick's Stadium, the home of the city's longtime PCL franchise, the Seattle Rainiers.

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 1751 in England and Wales ( and all British dominions ) the new year started on 25 March – Lady Day, one of the four quarter days ( the change to 1 January took place in 1600 in Scotland ).

Until a new bishop could be appointed, he bade the clergy of Riez obey the Bishop of Arles.

Until recently electrical energy has not been converted and stored on a major scale, however new efforts to that effect began in the 21st century.

Until a new key has been distributed, Carol is effectively " out of contact ".

Until the 1900s, new neighborhoods usually sought or accepted annexation to the central city to obtain city services.

Until recently, there were tax advantages to living trusts in South Africa, although most of these advantages have fallen away with new legislation.

Until the 19th century these silver dollar coins were actual Spanish dollars minted in the new world, mostly at Mexico City.

Until the Inclosure Acts, which came into force in England in the 18th century, there had been little need for horses to jump fences routinely, but with this act of Parliament came new challenges for those who followed fox hounds.

Until recently, the regions surrounding Bucharest were largely rural, but after 1989, new suburbs started to be built around Bucharest, in the surrounding Ilfov county.

Until recently prion diseases were only thought to be transmissible via direct contact with infected tissue, such as from eating infected tissue, transfusion or transplantation ; new research now suggests that prion diseases can be transmitted via aerosols, but that the general public is not at risk of airborne infection.

On July 7, Metropolis Records released a new compilation entitled Until The Shadows.

Until the new cuticle has hardened the animals are defenseless and almost immobilized.

Until then, Champagne houses produced different cuvées of varying quality, but a top-of-the-range wine produced to the highest standards ( and priced accordingly ) was a new idea.

Until SSE2, SSE integer instructions introduced with later SSE extensions could still operate on 64-bit MMX registers because the new XMM registers require operating system support.

Until the late 1950s, YMCAs in the United States were built with hotel-like rooms called residences or dormitories ; These rooms were built with the young men in mind coming from rural America and many foreign born young men arriving to the new cities.

Until the completion of the new development, the closest swimming pool is Tooting Lido.

Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Lambeth, when drawing up boundaries for the London Boroughs, the Government had initially suggested that Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth and the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark should be merged to form a new borough, with the southern and eastern section of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth ( including Clapham, Streatham and Tooting ) forming another.