Until recently, space scientists have thought that our galaxy was not very special.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Until recently, almost nothing had been written about echidnas living in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

She adds that until recently, U.S.support for President Hamid Karzai was unquestioning, which may have fostered a climate of corruption.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

The incident severely strained the bond between Turkey and Israel, which until recently had enjoyed relatively warm relations.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

The chief of the U.N.mission there, Kai Eide, did not acknowledge that there was "widespread fraud" until recently.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The two countries have, until recently, had close political and military ties and Turkey was widely seen as Israel's only friend in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.06.03

Until recently, hundreds of illegal immigrants, many of them from Afghanistan, hoping to cross the English channel to what they hoped was a better life in Britain.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Israel and Turkey were until recently close allies both on a military and political level, but since the Israeli attack on Gaza last year, relations have rapidly deteriorated.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

"The common thought until very recently was that this is a disease only of wealthy women and wealthy countries."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"I had not realized that that was the case until just recently when they called.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

But children in developing nations lived under the constant risk of infection until more recently, when an international service club took aim at eliminating the disease.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

More recently it stood unoccupied until a group of young squatters moved in two weeks ago, to protest the lack of jobs and affordable housing in France.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"China has reduced extreme poverty through economic growth, but until very recently has overlooked the growing inequalities in health and health determinants like access to clean air,water, and sanitation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07