宣戦布告に至るまでの時期はこのような状況であったと言える。の英語

You can say that the circumstances were thus in the period leading up to the declaration of war.

The situation at that time is described in the pages that follow.

an uprising quenched almost before it started

They kept singing until a rescue team came.

The battle ended before they got there.

when `until last Easter' serves as an adverb it is an exocentric construction

There was a lively [an animated] discussion on this subject.

The announcement of this new theory loosed [blew up] a storm of comment and dispute.

Getting that medicine into production was literally a continuous process of trial and error.

The dark horse candidate was losing in the polls before the primary.

To our amusement, the curtain began to rise ahead of time.

It was this remark that occasioned the quarrel.

I was sorely perplexed to account for the situation.

it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage

It was a prophetic statement.

The argument quickly got out of control.

Until the fireworks started, I sat and waited on the sandy beach.

We protested against the situation.

I ate shaved ice until the fireworks began.

I ate shaved ice until the fireworks started.

A newsreel was shown before the movie.

we had to wait for the inspection before we could use the elevator

They won't announce the result till the meeting begins.

farmers were uneasy until rain finally came

I gave an honest account of what transpired.

The tsuna was presented to Kakuryu just before the ring-entering ceremony.

They defused the bomb before it could blow up.

The above are the facts as stated by the defendant.

Consideration of the issue was carried over to the next session.

After that, things began to present an entirely different picture.