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Old 05-Jan-2005, 08:30
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Default Re: until recently and in/at


Dear Casiopea,
Thank you very much for your reply. The problem is that my examples were taken from the textbook and a dictionary. Maybe they are such cases but they are rarely used as you said.

Jiang
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Originally Posted by Casiopea
Either at or in. Both are acceptable:

1) I had a busy day at the office/in the office.


until sounds odd coupled with recently.

2) He has been ill recently.
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