Example sentences of "to the [adv] recent " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first part lists three stages of human evolution from the earliest to the most recent : savagery , barbarism , and civilization . |
| 2 | Lastly , there are the libraries at the colleges , ranging from Oxford and Cambridge to the most recent amalgamations of teacher-training and technical colleges . |
| 3 | The range is vast , from simple inorganic substances to the most recent biologicals . |
| 4 | These range from Weber 's micro-sociological work ( though Weber was by no means just an action theorist ) , to symbolic interactionism , on to the most recent , and radical , action approaches — phenomenology and ethnomethodology . |
| 5 | Thus , according to the most recent readership profiles assembled by The Guardian , 56% of Guardian readers agree with the statement ‘ I disapprove of aerosol cans because of the effect on the atmosphere ’ , 139,000 of them have taken out life assurance payable on death , 5% are under 40 , 73% bought records last year , more of them attended theatre and contemporary dance events more often than readers of other quality dailies and 25,000 of them invested in unit trusts . |
| 6 | This applies particularly to the most recent one-day course , which included a contribution from Philip Waterhouse ( coordinator of the Self-supported Study Project ) and some workshops run by teacher-members of the Inservice Panel and employing staff-development materials either developed by themselves or derived from elsewhere . |
| 7 | We could say that a discourse participant is ‘ speaking topically ’ when he makes his contribution fit closely to the most recent elements incorporated in the topic framework . |
| 8 | According to the most recent Green Paper ( DES 1985b ) there were at that time 184 institutions engaged wholly or mainly in the provision of higher education courses , and another 372 in which some provision was at this level — a total of 556 ( 10 fewer than given in Annex A of that document ) . |
| 9 | The vertebrate fossils could thus be arranged in a historical sequence running through from the most ancient to the most recent geological periods . |
| 10 | " Hotel " is defined by s.139(1) as meaning ( a ) in towns and suburbs a house containing at least four apartments set apart exclusively for the sleeping accommodation of travellers , and ( b ) in rural districts and places of a population of less than 1,000 according to the most recent census a house containing two such apartments . |
| 11 | The research will involve identifying the current ( ie whether in business or not ) of all the non-respondents to the most recent survey in order to check for bias in the results . |
| 12 | ACCORDING to the most recent figures available , the number of people coming to live in Northern Ireland is now greater than the number leaving these shores . |
| 13 | The keyword LATEST-ISSUE-IN-FILE relates to the most recent version , i.e. the one with the highest issue number , of that module known to LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | This is well beyond the time scale generally relevant to landform development but it is still important to be aware of how present landscapes , especially in plate interiors , relate to the most recent episode of supercontinent fragmentation . |
| 15 | One system that gives rise to exponentially weighted moving averages is constructed so that greatest weight is given to the most recent observation , the weights applied to previous observations diminishing period by period by a constant factor , a . |
| 16 | Courage in the Skies ( Stanley Paul , 208pp , illus , hbk , £18.99 ) by AVM Johnnie Johnson and W/C Laddie Lucas two distinguished World War Two pilots , brings to life the many characters that have played a prominent part in aviation combat history , along with the many amazing developments in aircraft technology from the days of World War One to the more recent Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 17 | This profound asymmetry in the structure and evolution of the world economic system provides the essential background to the more recent migrations of black communities to Britain in the post-Second World War period , for one of its main effects has been the creation of pools of under- and unemployed workers in circumstances of poverty and restricted opportunity in the Third World , who find themselves having to undergo the painful dislocation entailed by migration and travel thousands of miles in search of work . |
| 18 | These criticisms provide basic challenges not only to the classical liberalism of Hobbes and Locke but also to the more recent theories we have examined . |
| 19 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 20 | Sir , in making reference to erm policies which erm have relevance to the question of the status of the two sites we 're concerned with , I will start with those which are part of the statutory plan , that is to say the North Yorkshire County Structure Plan approved by the Secretary of State , and then proceed downwards to the more recent documents which do not employ . |
| 21 | After parting from Madame Gebrec , Melissa returned to the library with the intention of working there for the rest of the afternoon , but time and again she found her mind straying from the accounts of former religious wars and the acts of unbelievable cruelty committed by both sides to the more recent clash of ideologies which , it seemed to her , differed from the old in little but the relative sophistication of the weaponry . |
| 22 | Thanks to these acts , to the more recent endeavours of the Forth River Purification Board and to the occasional activity of groups of young volunteers , the Water of Leith today , though not yet as sparkling as a highland burn , is sufficiently clean to maintain its annual stock of trout . |
| 23 | The project aims to contribute to the home-school relations debate , and to the more recent discussions about the introduction of community education in Local Education Authorities . |
| 24 | The reason for this is not clear but it may relate to the more recent stress associated with handling and anaesthesia for irradiation . |
| 25 | It mentions as well the growth of new ways of accessing information , from online public access catalogues ( OPACs ) , through CD-ROMs and online searching , to the more recent network navigation tools . |
| 26 | M. Dauphin 's books include many on Japan , providing a valuable complement to the more recent publications which we have been able to acquire through the generosity of our anonymous Japanese benefactor . |
| 27 | ( d ) a delivery after transfer , where the requested item proves to be already on the reserve shelf of another reader , but can be supplied after it has been transferred from that reader to the more recent applicant . |
| 28 | A wide range of more specialised honours course are offered , ranging in period from the medieval to the very recent past and geographically from Britain to Eastern Europe , Latin America , India , Russia and the former Soviet States , and the USA . |