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Example sentences for "recent times"

  • The Mastership of the Company has in recent times been an honourable post, held by Princes and Statesmen.

  • Those who knew Dulwich College, before its reconstitution in recent times, must remember its being spoken of as a notable instance of "the abuse of an ancient charity.

  • That there is no lack of musical genius or skill in our country is sufficiently attested by the great array of eminent composers and distinguished performers, whether in vocal or instrumental music, both in former and in recent times.

  • Of past Gairloch pipers, other than the Mackays, I have no account, except of three who belong to recent times.

  • Happily, whether from fear of the kirk-session, or from the general improvement of recent times, offences against morals are to-day less common in Gairloch than in some parts of the lowlands.

  • In recent times, we may attribute our rapid progress chiefly to the careful determination of the order of succession in mineral masses, by means of their different organic contents, and their regular superposition.

  • Other fossil remains of this class have also been found in estuaries known to have been silted up in recent times, one example of which has been already mentioned near Lewes, in Sussex.

  • It is undoubtedly true, that many new habits and qualities have not only been acquired in recent times by certain races of dogs, but have been transmitted to their offspring.

  • It is only in recent times that we have come to realize the seriousness of the problem which the backward child presents in our schools.

  • In recent times, however, Professor Ewart has repeated the experiment a number of times with different mares using a Burchell zebra as the test sire.

  • Roger Bacon recognized by a sort of scientific intuition of his own, certain passages which have proved to be the best in recent times.

  • We have learned in recent times, that a very definite tradition with regard to the possibility of finding land by sailing straight westward over the Atlantic existed long before Columbus' time.

  • In any event, about the year 1700 the literature of Germany stood lower than that of any other nation, once in possession of a great civilization and literature, has ever stood in recent times.

  • In prose also a conscious and systematic attempt to make an artistic division into paragraphs, chapters, and books, has only been made in recent times, above all in and since the writings of Nietzsche.

  • It is, therefore, reasonable to conclude that the transfer of tropical shore fishes of the Old World between the Atlantic and Pacific, in recent times, has taken place mainly around the southern point of Africa.

  • Guenther claims that the actual identity of genera and species in these two regions is such as to necessitate the hypothesis that they have been in recent times joined by a continuous shore-line.

  • If the fish faunas of different regions have mingled in recent times, the fact would be shown by the presence of the same species in each region.

  • This structural geology is decidedly opposed to any hypothesis by which the waters of the two oceans could have been connected across the regions in Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, or recent times.

  • While in former times cirrhosis of the stomach was confounded with cancer, in recent times it has not been separated by many from chronic catarrhal gastritis.

  • Pericarditis scorbutica--a condition which has been observed mostly in Russia in recent times.

  • But the Galapagos have been uninhabited, except in recent times by two or three hundred people banished from Ecuador.

  • He gives point to this phrase by an account of the local plagues of recent times in Gujerat and Kumaon.

  • Intolerance there never extended to the Jews, nor to the Greek schismatics, and in recent times it does not, as formerly, affect the Protestants.

  • In Japan, Shintoism, as reformed in recent times, has become much more a political institution than a religious system.

  • This is especially true of recent times, since the growth of the population has been constantly forging ahead in comparison with the increase of the annual production of rice.

  • In our history, it is true, we had retained a class-system for a very long time, even after the revolution of the Meidji era, and all men had not been equal before the law until very recent times.

  • Hitherto every move she has made, every feat she has achieved, has been made an object of international suspicion, especially in recent times.

  • The account has been verified in recent times by the discovery of a rock-cut relief of three times the size of life, so disintegrated that satisfactory drawings of its human forms could not be made.

  • It is interesting to note in this connection that all of these studies and many others belonging to this set have, in recent times, been rewritten for the left hand.

  • The collection, as a whole, is one of the most remarkable of recent times.

  • Includes unvarnished portraits of various characters who have made a flutter in recent times in this little world of ours.

  • The only notable exception in recent times is in a work by Burne-Jones who represents Christ as a beardless youth, though indicating the wound to St. Thomas.

  • In recent times it has been held that poetry is a combined art, owing to the almost invariable use of a simple form of music in its construction, but it would appear that primarily poetry is independent of metrical assistance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recent times" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are accustomed; automobile assembly; government ownership; large ship; made her; many insects; medical journal; merry little; parish church; particularly when; prevent sticking; primary schools; recent cases; recent date; recent discoveries; recent fiction; recent introduction; recent months; recent number; recent origin; recent period; recent times; recent years; serve you; state bank; steady fire