France s meager growth is surprising. Until recently, the economy was doing fairly well, outperforming many EU countries.

Iraq, governed by Shia political forces, also keeps close tabs on Syria s evolution, as does Turkey, which, until fairly recently, considered Syria a keystone of its regional policy.

Until recently, I would have considered this unlikely.

Until recently, little help was available to victims.

Until the global financial crisis broke, Barroso looked fairly certain to get a second five year term.

Until recently, banks could offer only simple savings accounts.

Consider India, until recently another much celebrated success story.

Until recently, both sides adhered to this tacit contract.

Until recently, the SCO s members addressed energy issues only bilaterally.

Indeed, until recently, most people took little notice of China.

That has been the state of the debate until recently.

Until recently, public debt was considered the ultimate safe asset.

Moldova and Georgia were in the last category until recently.

Until recently, this combination of carrots and sticks functioned effectively.

Breeding is fairly slow, as the young do not reach full size until they are two or three years old.

In the postwar period, until recently, advanced economies dominated the global economy.

Until recently, much of China s bid for regional hegemony reflected Sun s concepts.

MILAN Until recently, relatively little attention was paid to states balance sheets.

Until local media reported about this unusual flow of information, Park's indictment was fairly new to the South Korean general public.

Until recently, Duch was the only one imprisoned, after being exposed in 1999.

Advanced countries have been the biggest sources of carbon emissions until relatively recently.

Until recently, no one knew who is right, because no one was keeping score.

So it is time to consider alternatives that until recently would have been inconceivable.

Recently, a few writers, including internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel and political activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, have espoused a fairly radical interpretation of the slowdown.

Until recently, the main function of women was to marry and give birth to children.

CAMBRIDGE Until recently, cyber security has primarily interested computer geeks and cloak and dagger types.

Until recently, the record on evaluating responses to humanitarian emergencies has been patchy at best.

Until recently, the overlapping claims on the 4.6 square kilometers were not a serious issue.

Their needs are different, and producers around the world have, until recently, largely ignored them.

And until recently, silence was preferred over the stigmatization that often went with going public.

Barrow, a real estate developer, was an unknown figure in Gambian politics until very recently.

The Lebanese Government recently asked for an extension of the Commission's mandate until 15 December.

This amendment was recently extended and is in force until the end of April 2007.

In the Arab region, several countries until recently refused to acknowledge the existence of poverty.

Britain famously has no written constitution, or, until recently, anything resembling a modern Bill of Rights.

In practice, their implementation was, until recently, left to national regulators, who applied very different standards.

BERLIN The last illusions about what was called, until recently, the Arab Spring may have vanished.

Until recently, this simply would not have been possible, at least not on the immunization front.

Until recently, Exxon Mobil and other companies paid lobbyists to try to distort the public debate.

Until recently, international investors believed that expanding their portfolios in emerging markets was a no brainer.

Yet hostility towards investment by Russia s government (and government companies) has been almost universal until recently.

I heard that until very recently AIDS was seen as such a taboo even by doctors.

Indeed, its caseload remained fairly low until the 1970s, when the Court successfully overcame the suspicion that prevailed among many developing countries that it was biased.

It's fairly warm today.

Insurance will cover the bypass, it ll cover the angioplasty it won t, until recently, cover diet and lifestyle.