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Discover LudwigThe phrase "has been until" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is mainly used in the present perfect tense to indicate that something happened and continued up until a certain point in the past. Example: I had been working as a waiter until last month when I decided to quit.
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Think about how rare that has been until fairly recently.
Unfortunately, producing them efficiently and economically has been until recently a problem.
Well, suddenly they do, and in what has been until now a nigh-desert for entertainment.
Hadreas's music is aggressive in conception but often gentle in execution — or has been until now.
Yet his own welcome by the market has been, until fairly recently, less than avid.
Nadella pleases ValueAct – see this enthusiastic statement today – which has been until now Microsoft's biggest critic.
Who benefits from the voucher program has been, until recently, less well known.
America always has been, until recently, the greatest place in the world to achieve upward mobility.
It's not surprising that Instagram is deviating from what has been, until now, a relentless focus on photos.
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It would have been until around a decade ago.
But the courts have been, until recently, almost totally silent.
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