"used until recently" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a past action or circumstance that was commonly practiced but has since changed. Example: "Electric typewriters were used until recently, but now most offices have switched to computers."
The statute was rarely used until recently, when the Justice Department apparently found it useful for cases arising out of the financial crisis.
A similar technique was used until recently by Marco Tronchetti Provera to control Telecom Italia.But pyramids do pop up elsewhere.
Though explorers in the mid-1800s proved the sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific existed, the climate was so extreme it was rarely used until recently.
The stations were used until recently to gather trash that was then dumped at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island.
A walk down the high street of any town will raise the eyebrows of those used, until recently, to limited choice.
This vulnerability exists in Firefox 11.0 – 16.0.2, as well as Firefox 10.0 ESR – the Firefox version used until recently in the Tor browser bundle.
Encrypted messaging was clunky and hard to use until recently, but is now widespread thanks to Apple and WhatsApp, he points out.
The Covent Garden eatery Rules, which claims to be, and probably is, the oldest in Great Britain, used until fairly recently to have a magnificent foreigner-baiting joke on its wine list.
Cell phones were not heavily used until quite recently.
Both the News-Press and Leader used, until very recently, an automatic system.
Although rather effectively alleviating the symptoms related to the inflammatory process, most disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs used until very recently have been less effective in retarding the progressive joint destruction.
