Example sentences of "only recently [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While many politicians have only recently seen their green light many diesel engine manufacturers have looked further ahead , and have been developing cleaner engines , principally in response to stringent American legislation . |
| 2 | The idea still persists that organized Christianity has only recently stumbled upon these truths . |
| 3 | Stanley had many friends , many long-standing , and some only recently met . |
| 4 | I know that his many friends and family , as well as those who have only recently met him , think that this must be one of those marriages that are made in heaven , and will want to join me in wishing Steven and Annabelle a long and happy married life together . |
| 5 | Our respective worlds have only recently met . |
| 6 | Severini , who had only recently met Carrà and Russolo , now took the Italian painters on a tour of the Paris studios and galleries . |
| 7 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 8 | I only recently discovered her connection with this place , and that was by accident . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that the Whitney Museum was the first to show the photographs of the notorious late Robert Mapplethorpe , and only recently declared that it was creating a department of photography , the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation announced last month that it was the Guggenheim it would be patronising with gifts in money and kind . |
| 10 | But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre . |
| 11 | I have only recently completed my open water diver training , so I am still a novice at the sport . |
| 12 | The aircraft had previously been flown in the USA as N190DH until a crash at Sellersburg , Indiana , on September 22 , 1987 , following which it was imported into the UK in 1989 and has only recently completed rebuild in the capable hands of Cliff Lovell , giving us a second airworthy DH.90 alongside Wessex Aviation & Transport 's G–AEDT . |
| 13 | At first sight one might think he was taking no part in the uproar , but Toby had only recently completed his own schooldays , and he had soon realized that Hilary controlled it . |
| 14 | Mech-Tool Wood Group made slow progress in the last year since many of the oil companies have only recently completed their offshore Safety Risk Assessments . |
| 15 | Work opportunities for Mech-Tool Wood Group continue to move slowly since many of the oil companies have only recently completed offshore Safety Risk Assessments . |
| 16 | The first witness had decided at an early stage not to travel to Dublin ; the second only recently made his decision not to give evidence . |
| 17 | Except for one year when she lost a pound ; I think she 's only recently given up searching for it . |
| 18 | I must begin by rejecting a notion that is circulating at the moment that Christianity has only recently discovered the importance of green issues and has simply jumped on a topical band-wagon . |
| 19 | Roland had only recently discovered that the London Library possessed Ash s own copy of Vico 's Principj di Scienza Nuova . |
| 20 | I have only recently discovered the joy ( and disappointments ) of keeping tropical fish , and I could certainly relate to Ian Moore 's problems with new tank syndrome ( Talkback April issue ) . |
| 21 | Jon pointed out the clearly visible " honey guides " on the plants ' petals , and explained that he had only recently discovered that they could be pollinated by butterflies . |
| 22 | Cautioning may have fallen into disrepute but to abandon it will mean a return to the punitive policies that this government had only recently said had failed . |
| 23 | The windows have heavy moulded oak mullions mortised into massive oak sills and lintels , a reminder that in the heyday of the Lugg valley , medieval stone mullions had only recently gone out of fashion . |
| 24 | At $5,550 , IBM Corp 's new 16″ colour Xstation 150 seems pricey , but then it 's built around the Motorola Inc 88110 which has only recently gone into volume production ( UX No 422 ) : thought to clock at 40Mhz IBM says the 150 outperforms its existing Xstation 130 by a factor of six at 115,000 Xstones , and comes with from 6Mb to 22Mb RAM . |
| 25 | A big cat that has only recently gone extinct is the sabre-tooth ( " tiger " ) , named after its colossal canine teeth which jutted down from the upper jaw in the front of what must have been a terrifying gape . |
| 26 | ‘ The awareness of what health promotion can achieve has only recently swung into the consciousness of upper policy makers . |
| 27 | Deborah had only recently moved to the village of Wyching . |
| 28 | Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems . |
| 29 | She and her husband have only recently moved into their marital home and their first child is due at Christmas , but they do n't even know where they 'll be living this time next week . |
| 30 | This is an area only recently receiving attention , increasingly by using statistical tests for ‘ normalcy ’ : such studies should bring some objectivity to the assumptions which tend to be made at the moment about the character of individual or groups of hoards . |