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Example sentences for "recent date"

  • The efforts of the board in this quarter of the globe are of recent date.

  • These missions appear to be of recent date.

  • Beside these, are the European and Mediterranean islands missions, which, though of recent date, are promising in their aspects.

  • Though the term Ana is of comparatively modern origin, the introduction of this species of composition is not of recent date.

  • Supplementing Winsor and bringing the material down to recent date is Prof.

  • Rocks of Archean and Palaeozoic ages contribute only a small share, but there is a very complete sequence of formations from the Lias to those of recent date.

  • In the West Indies piracy is of recent date, which may explain the cause why other powers have not combined against it.

  • At a recent date an attack was made on a post of the enemy near Niagara by a detachment of the regular and other forces under the command of Major-General Van Rensselaer, of the militia of the State of New York.

  • It was, however, occupied by farming tenants down to a recent date, as late, I believe, as 1889.

  • At Wedderlie, of old time, says Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, there stood a very ancient chapel, of which some traces of a vault remain, or remained at a recent date.

  • Another effective form of enclosure is a list of buyers since a recent date.

  • Writers of Italy=] The literary fame of Spain rests with its authors of the past, there being few of notable merit of recent date.

  • One chemical theory of recent date, the vortex atom theory of Lord Kelvin, has quickly met its fate, being abandoned by its author himself, but the study of it has been rich in results.

  • She could not afford to spend money on new constructions along modern lines, and the introduction of the cellular system is only of recent date.

  • The gaol fever, that ancient scourge which once ravaged ill-kept prisons and swept away thousands, but long ago eliminated from proper places of durance, survived in the Saladero of Madrid until quite a recent date.

  • Until quite a recent date, everything, even temporary liberty, had its price in Spanish prisons.

  • What parts of the bed of the ocean are stationary at present, and what areas may be rising or sinking, is a matter of which we are very ignorant, as the taking of accurate soundings is but of recent date.

  • The area over which the white chalk preserves a nearly homogeneous aspect is so vast, that the earlier geologists despaired of discovering any analogous deposits of recent date.

  • In some loose sands of recent date we meet with shells in so advanced a stage of decomposition as to crumble into powder when touched.

  • This denial was challenged by the Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, who brought forward some very awkward testimonies and facts of recent date.

  • Coming down to a recent date, I reproduce here a letter from a Zulu Chief, which appeared in the London Press in November, 1899.

  • No; it was like a quiet domestic picture of no recent date, not likely to be soon ended.

  • If he had been able to go with them on the previous year, as had been arranged, he would probably have left his fortune otherwise, for Mr. Dalzell's attentions had only been of recent date.

  • With some writers it would seem that to give a recent date to these monuments would deprive them of all interest.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apple blossom; both civil and criminal; brought from; divine things; dull yellow; euerie side; factory legislation; intense cold; large pieces; later days; led her; moral agents; ordinary life; our lives; recent events; recent fiction; recent months; recent number; recent period; recent species; recent times; recent visit; recent years; sometimes written; tailed sheep; whose works