Most remained mired in subsistence level agriculture until suddenly advances in the Anglosphere catapulted living standards forward.
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Traders whose approaches go in and out of style, until suddenly they are 80 and their tack seems to work, once again.
Their new products are terribly useful, until suddenly they completely stink.
It worked quite well until suddenly it stopped working.
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The 2012 parliament ran for four turbulent months until it suddenly was declared invalid on 20 June.
Nothing much seems to happen until confidence suddenly snaps.
And incumbents often look invulnerable until they suddenly fall.
Lorenzo, who admitted he had come into the weekend still not fully recovered from a pre-season hand injury, had a quiet race until he suddenly leapt into contention with two laps to go, bursting into second place.
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She returned to the U.S., and the Dutch government has been paying for her protection here -- that is, until it suddenly announced last week that it would no longer protect her outside the Netherlands, thereby advertising her vulnerability to the world.
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And it is highly-likely that the coming rounds will produce more of the same, until everyone suddenly wakes up one morning to news reports that Jeter has either re-signed with the Yankees or will finish out his Hall of Fame-caliber career with another franchise.
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He drove, threading together seams and streets, all his ideas, until, quite suddenly, the night became rigid.
Mr Nadir fled the UK in 1993, while awaiting trial, and remained a fugitive in northern Cyprus until 2010 when he suddenly returned.
That continues, until they look and suddenly see that they are looking at themselves in the mirror and that there is no one to sell to.
The one thing a person could always count on -- that the sun would come up in the morning and stay up until evening -- suddenly could not be counted on at all.
It wasn't until former CEO Skilling resigned suddenly in August 2001 that the media as a whole started investigating the company.
It's not as if Sweden was happy and calm and contented until last week and then, suddenly, this trouble started.
And for the last few years, the Canadian authorities have left him alone--until this summer, when they suddenly raided his seed business at the behest of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
Not until late 1985, when Marcos suddenly called a "snap" presidential election in an attempt to capitalize on opposition disarray, did Cory finally acknowledge that she alone could unite the anti-Marcos forces and transform the race into a political morality play.
Traders drooled with a utopian passion until one day last September when ardor suddenly cooled.
Created by Mann and his colleagues, it supposedly proved that air temperatures had been stable for 900 years until the 20th century, and then suddenly rocketed off the charts (attributing this to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions).
This man, who went with Alexander as a kind of court historian, was a great supporter and cheerleader for six years until turning into a critic, rather suddenly, over the issue of whether Alexander ought to be greeted with a low bow, the way Persian monarchs were greeted.
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This means that starting from 1846, people suddenly became more likely to last until their hundredth birthdays.
It wasn't until the summer of 2002 that her world suddenly included what was possible beyond the walls of her illness.
Eason, who was trained as a pediatric nurse, was a stay-at-home mom until a bookkeeper at the trout farm left suddenly in 1985 and she was pressed into service.
Lavinia Poist-Eades, 75, a business manager at Carpet Authority Inc. in Bel Air, which hasn't sued the firm, says she didn't suspect anything was amiss until late February, when she says AccuPay suddenly stopped answering her calls.
His first use of driftwood, though, had nothing to do with animals or sculpture -- he had initially crafted and sold furniture from it until the possibilities of creating large-scale art suddenly struck him.
You never really notice this until you leave the country, whereupon the white noise suddenly stops.
Like Manny Ramirez, until failing yet another artificial stimulant test forced him to suddenly retire recently.
It's known that peregrines have roosted and hunted from the tower over the centuries until, in the mid-1900s, their numbers suddenly declined.
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