Sentence examples for had been until from inspiring English sources

According to the National Foundation for Education Research, there had been (until recently) no measurable improvement in the standards of literacy and numeracy in primary schools for 50 years.England and Wales are not alone.

In 2002 and 2003, astronomers using Hubble created what had been (until now) the best image of Pluto: a peachy orb with a splotchy surface.

He had been, until then, a staunch Sarkozy supporter.

Or at least they had been, until Sunday.

The local election results kill off what had been, until recently, a widely held assumption.

I didn't realise how glorious it had been until I saw Coronation Street.

The Nummi plant had been, until its closing in April, the only unionized Toyota plant in the United States.

But it remains higher than it had been until the recent recession began at the end of 2007.

Protestants became citizens for the first time in what had been until then a purely Roman Catholic town.

The Hubble Deep Field, as the visible photography was known, had been until now the deepest view of galaxies.

Its new marble floor was raised to the level it had been until Louis Philippe lowered it.