Many prohibition-era laws have not been updated, yet until recently were rarely enforced.

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Yet until very recently, despite the billions of dollars invested in them, military lasers have had a less than glowing record.

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Yet Mr Bush has, until recently, continued to resist the long-term engagement of American troops and manpower in reconstruction, or nation-building.

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Yet this has not presented a problem until recently, as supercomputers came out of national laboratory blockhouses, into massive air-conditioned buildings in corporate headquarters, later onto millions of desktops, and now into millions more pockets in mobile devices.

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Yet, you know that you had no awareness of ticking until recently.

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Like Manny Ramirez, until failing yet another artificial stimulant test forced him to suddenly retire recently.

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Yet even among biggest metros the biggest growth has been among lower-cost, until fairly recently largely native-born, regions such as Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta.

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Yet, while I think nothing of making my own mayonnaise or putting up jars of marmalade, until recently it never occurred to me that these bundles of nooked and crannied goodness were something I could make myself.

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