Comparatively recent additions to the Arch are the two sculptured groups on northern façade, to the right and left of the span.
Of comparatively recent date is the remodelling that has converted the old stables into quaint, if somewhat garish artist studios.
But it seems probable that no considerable incursion of people from this area was effected until a comparatively recent date.
Now there is some reason to suppose that the introduction to Borneo of rice and of the art of cultivating it is of comparatively recent date.
These countries having been, until a comparatively recent period, inhabited only by uncivilised men, neither cultivation nor selection has been carried on for a sufficiently long time.
A very good example of comparatively recent divergence of character, in accordance with new conditions of life, is afforded by our red grouse.
It is a very usual circumstance to see two or more crests displayed in England, but this practice is of comparatively recent date.
In nearly all modern representations the tail, like the tongue, {225} will be found ending in a barb, but it should be observed that this is a comparatively recent addition.
Doubtless the heraldic tiger, which was the only one found in British armory until a comparatively recent date, is the attempt of artists to depict their idea of a tiger.
From this work to the Miami river, the distance is now about half a mile; the intervening bottom is low and of comparatively recent formation.
It seems most likely that these rough sculptures have a comparatively recent date, and are the remains of the tribes found in possession of the country by the whites.
Besides these varieties of pipes, numerous others are found, most of which are probably referable to a comparatively recent era.
Until a comparatively recent time, the actual significance of this monument seems to have been little understood.
Another theory was that the devil entered human beings during sleep; and at a comparatively recent period a King of Spain was wont to sleep between two monks, to keep off the devil.
The Welsh saint called Cynog was one of the numberless children of that famous old patriarch Brychan Brycheiniog, and had his memory honoured, until a comparatively recent period, in the parish of Defynog.
One of the customs of Easter, at a comparatively recent period in Wales, was getting the children up early in the morning to see the sun dance.
Up to a comparatively recent time, no person in the parish would kill a hare.
The tract of the old Roman road continued to be the most practicable route between Newcastle and Carlisle, the traffic between the two towns having been carried along it upon packhorses until a comparatively recent period.
Another species of Filaria, a more dangerous parasite of man and indigenous to the tropics, is of frequent occurrence, though of comparatively recent discovery.
This confusion ruled up to a comparatively recent time.
Thus the term Bur is the common Mongolian designation both of the Baikal Mongols and of the Kara-Kirghiz, who occupied this very region and the upper Yenisei valley generally till comparatively recent times.
This custom seems to have been founded upon a prior superstitious use of magical cords which were, till a comparatively recent period, buried with the dead.
This superstition survived in Europe until a comparatively recent period.
It is the opinion of many antiquarians and judges of ecclesiastical structures that many additions and alterations were made to and in the abbey, and some of them in comparatively recent times.
It may thus reasonably be concluded that the Darzis are a caste of comparatively recent origin, and the explanation is probably that the use of the needle and thread in making clothes is a new fashion.
Such a separation must probably have occurred in comparatively recent times, inasmuch as some recollection of it still remains.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comparatively recent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
