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Example sentences for "quite recent"

  • Up to quite recent times it was a common belief in Scotland that the punishment of the cruelty, oppression, or misconduct of an individual descended as a curse on his children to the third and fourth generation.

  • In the United States the organization of professional accountants is of quite recent growth.

  • If we glance at the modes of treating the subject up to a quite recent date we find that little of serious effort to apply to it a strictly scientific method of investigation.

  • Some of the gates of the old churchyards are very beautiful in their designs and have often been imitated in quite recent years, for the gates of country places, for our modern millionaires.

  • One example of this has secured a large share of notoriety in quite recent years.

  • The bearers of them have been written of at length in quite recent years in English as well as in other languages.

  • This peculiar and ready mode of dissolving the bond of wedlock was not uncommon in former times; but I have a note of a similar transaction occurring in or near Scarborough in a quite recent year; and in 1898 (Nov.

  • The Castle Spectre" remained a stock piece for years, and has even appeared upon the stage in quite recent times.

  • But these are innovations of quite recent date.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite recent" 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:
    altogether different; consanguineous marriages; each hand; music teacher; quite capable; quite clean; quite correct; quite different; quite easily; quite easy; quite happy; quite near; quite prepared; quite ready; quite recent; quite simple; quite small; quite tender; quite unable; quite unconscious; quite useless; quite variable; replied the scout master; speaking races; threw them; water bath