The phrase "a certain recent" is not correct in standard written English.
It is unclear and awkward, as "certain" and "recent" do not typically work together in this way.
Example: "In a certain recent study, researchers found significant results."
Alternatives: "a specific recent" or "a particular recent".
Within seconds the little group is surrounded, à la a certain recent Boston situation, with good guys and bad guys reversed, and minus the gazebo.
Texas, once a part of the Confederacy, has trailed behind: its cliché has been a conservative Christian in cowboy boots, much like a certain recent president.
The subtle addition of AIDS ribbons gives a whole new meaning to the song "Last Supper," for instance, and "I Loved" becomes a very funny invocation of a certain recent political scandal.
This reminds me of a certain recent meeting between two CEOs.
Such relativism about value of all sorts is part of the Zeitgeist of a certain recent Western cultural tradition.
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The Court continues to pursue a course, charted in certain recent decisions, designed to transform § 10(b) from an intentionally elastic "catchall" provision to one that catches relatively little of the misbehavior that all too often makes investment in securities a needlessly risky business for the uninitiated investor.
THIS stout volume witnesses in a remarkable manner to certain recent developments in physical chemistry developments which bid fair to mark the opening of a period of fundamental and fruitful research, comparable in importance only with the years following the enunciation of the laws of solution and of electrolytic dissociation.
It's an apt metaphor for certain recent, real-world, wealth-generating endeavors, except that in this case, its pointlessness becomes clear right away.
An analysis of his computer shows "a certain and recent interest for radical jihadist movements," Paris Prosecutor François Molins said Monday, at a press conference a few hours after the country observed a minute of silence in honor of the victims of the Friday attack.
