The billion dollars was supposed to last until November.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

He has since been stripped of his citizenship. His trial is expected to last until May.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

He introduced Islamic law in the country, including in the mostly non-Islamic south, helping to set off the second north-south civil war, which would last until 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

But John Masiunas of the University of Illinois Extension says it may be best to wait until after the last winter freeze.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Some of the tall mountains keep their snow until the last hot days of summer.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

And she continued singing in small clubs until the last year of her life.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

It's a song Slaid wanted to put on his last CD, Unsung,but he just couldn't get the right sound until now.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

Specter had been a Republican senator up until last year, when he switched to the Democratic Party, with the backing of President Barack Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

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

Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said France unilaterally increased its troop presence last September to some 3,800, and will not even consider another change until a conference on Afghan aid being convened by Britain in late January.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05