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Example sentences for "until lately"

  • Until lately he called the /grapefruit/ a /shaddock/.

  • English, after all, is the mother of American, and the child, until lately, was still at nurse.

  • Until lately, the letter-carriers' walks had been so extensive that many of the deliveries could not be accomplished within five or six hours.

  • The General Post Office, until lately in Bishopsgate Street, stood at this time in Lombard Street, where it occupied a site on part of which the branch office now stands.

  • Until lately, only a small number of the planters had any apparatus for distilling, for it was their practice to sell all the melasses which were produced to the small distillers.

  • The city contains a custom-house and treasury; the former is small, but was quite large enough for the business of the place, until lately.

  • Hereabouts the people generally are not so much reduced as in some parts of the town, because they have had more employment, until lately, than has been common elsewhere.

  • The first applicant, after I entered the room, was a man apparently under forty years of age, a beerhouse keeper, who had been comparatively well off until lately.

  • We are a curious nation; until lately we bought our rank, as we buy our mutton, in a market; and we found officers and gentlemen where other nations would have found thieves and swindlers.

  • Until lately we flogged our files with a cat-o'-nine-tails, and found heroes by treating men like dogs.

  • I'm his elder brother, and he has always treated me so until lately.

  • He had never quite lost the feeling that Edmund was a finer type of gentleman than himself--until lately, when his own brilliant gifts had brought him into such prominence as Edmund would never attain to.

  • We've been like one family, until lately, and that's what we are again now.

  • The old hero was buried at Duloe, where, until lately, his monument might have been seen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquired characters; ardent spirits; but even; constitutional amendments; containing some; final victory; fresh milk; her lover; made love; mes amis; organic remains; particular persons; separate from; settling down; something akin; symphonic poems; until brown; until death; until lately; until now; until otherwise; until quite; until soft; until suddenly; until the; until very