PREPOSITIONS & CONJUNCTIONS of TIME 2 - by / from / until
Complete the sentences using by, from, and till/until.
Example: I'll stay _____ I feel it's time to go. a) after b) until The answer is: b) - until ----------
1. The restaurant will stay open _____ 2:00 am. a) by b) until
2. _____ 2:05 am, everyone will have left and the place will be empty. a) By b) Until
3. My wife and I hope we will have found a house _____ the end of July. a) by b) from
4. In the three-month period _____ May to July, house prices rose by 11%. a) from b) until
5. I told Mary I'd meet her at 6:15, so I’ll study in the library _____ 6:00 pm. a) by b) till
6. _____ Christmas time, Mary and I will have been together for seven months. a) By b) From
7. The Cold War lasted _____ the end of World War II until the fall of Soviet Union. a) from b) till
8. _____ the time the U.S.S.R. broke up, its economy was in a severe state of collapse. a) By b) Until
9. It wasn't _____ Thomas Malthus that anybody thought to worry about overpopulation. a) from b) till
10. _____ the dawn of time until the 1800s, the world's population totaled less than 1 billion. a) By b) From ----------
