Definition of "up to now" []

• Prior to the present time (adverb)
• Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time (adverb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The extent of this British talent for retreat was hailed by a German military correspondent writing in the Vossische Zeitung: “As long as war exists … [this evacuation] will stand in the eyes of students of the strategy of retreat as a masterpiece which up to now has never been attained.”"
• "Kurfürsten Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg (1864 = =), up to now about 20 vols."
• "Hence, the need ensues for the Nestlé Company fundamentally to rethink its advertising practices in developing countries as concerns bottle feeding, for its advertising practice up to now can transform a life-saving product into one that is dangerous and life-destroying."