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Antonija Posted 20 years ago
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More intensive development of organic pethrochemical industry, however, followed in the USA only just/not earlier than on the eve of the World War II. The USA would hold the first position/would lead in the same industry until te fifties.
  

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More intensive development of the organic petrochemical industry, however, followed in the USA until just before World War II. The USA held the first position in this industry until the fifties.

  • More intensive development of the organic petrochemical industry, however, followed in the USA until just before World War II.
  • The USA held the first position in this industry until the fifties.
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More intensive development of the organic petrochemical industry, however, followed in the USA until just before World War II. The USA held the first position in this industry until the fifties.
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Thank you, Alan.

Does until just before mean what it should mean in this sentence: the USA began to develop more intensively just before World War II, not earlier.
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OK then, omit until.

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