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

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

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

Until recently, the government s response to the epidemic, which threatened the country s very lifeblood, was lackluster and foolish.

Perhaps, but let s not forget that a lot of very smart people in the financial industry thought the same thing until quite recently.

Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia are very different countries, but one thing that they share are Islamist governments (at least until recently in Egypt s case).

One of the greatest challenges has been the classification of the aye aye, which has been a topic of debate up until very recently.

Until recently, I would have considered this unlikely.

Until recently, little help was available to victims.

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.

Let me give you an example in Turkey where I come from, which is a very hyper secular republic, until very recently we used to have what I call secularism police, which would guard the universities against veiled students.

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.

Recently, I spoke to an Afghan man very close to me.

Now very recently, very recently, I'm talking about last six, seven, eight months, water, methane, carbon dioxide have been detected in the spectrum of a planet outside the solar system.

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.

Rafting has since been the most accepted explanation for the lemur colonization of Madagascar, but until recently this trip was thought to be very unlikely because strong ocean currents flow away from the island.

Games between Holland and Germany, for example, or Germany and Poland, tended, until very recently, to be reenactments of the war either and most commonly as melancholy replays of wartime defeat, or as sweet revenge.

Your impressive curriculum and the fact that you have held until very recently the position of Foreign Minister of Peru adds prestige and authority to your country, to the presidency and to the CD itself.

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.

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.

The weapons confiscated from militant groups are very often Iranian made, and recently exported.

And the euro s appreciation against the dollar from 2002 until very recently meant that the shift in the CFA franc s exchange rate peg from the French franc to the euro caused a repeat of that scenario.

Worse, a mathematical error was made in the original application of these methods to field emission, and even the corrected theory that was put in place in the 1950s has been formally incomplete until very recently.

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

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