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

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

Until relatively recently, gemstones were believed to have magical, medicinal properties, and nothing was more effective at treating a kidney disorder than jade.

Neither did I until recently.

No. She lived in Argentina until recently.

Until recently, I would have considered this unlikely.

Until recently, little help was available to victims.

Until recently bread was almost unheard of here.

But this is not how the future was sold to the public, and, until recently, financial markets were acting as if recovery was at hand and would be relatively quick.

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.

There are traps that fish sustainably up until recently.

Recently, automation in manufacturing has expanded even to areas where labor has been relatively cheap.

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.

Until very recently that was little more than a vision.

Until recently, it was considered that Bermuda was discovered in 1503.

Until very recently there had been some scepticism about this initiative.

Even so, up until very recently, nobody worried about GPS spoofers.

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.

Until recently, we haven't had to know exactly how a vaccine worked.

The institutional framework for environmental management in general, and climate change in particular, was set up relatively recently.

More recently, the use of solar energy has been relatively successful in some SIDS, particularly in the Pacific islands.

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

Up until very recently this annual draft resolution was consistently adopted by consensus.

Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback

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.

Until recently, he was earning an official monthly salary of less than 7,000 dollars.

They have the advantage of being familiar with United Nations policies and practices and, until fairly recently, it has normally been possible to deploy them to the field relatively quickly when new operations have been established or existing ones expanded.

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.