The phrase "a comparatively recent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that has occurred or been developed in a relatively short time frame compared to other events or developments.
Example: "The technology is a comparatively recent innovation in the field of renewable energy."
Alternatives: "a relatively recent" or "a more recent".
* * * The Vatican bank is a comparatively recent institution.
It's important to remember that the story as we know it is a comparatively recent phenomenon.
We learn that the acreage of flesh on view in Rio is a comparatively recent development.
The college song as known today is a comparatively recent phenomenon.
The competition between Jews and Muslims for primacy on the Mount is a comparatively recent phenomenon.
The other, the granite-faced eight-times grand slam winner Ivan Lendl, is a comparatively recent addition to the cast.
A second, comparatively recent migration of a second species (S. verrucosum, A genome) from South America formed the Demissa hexaploids (A1A4 [B,C,D]) [ 5] by crossing with series Longipedicellata tetraploids and possibly other series.
A further, and comparatively recent, development has been the drive-in theatre.
Right-wing paramilitaries are the product of a complex but comparatively recent situation that was generated mainly by the arrival of the drug business.Over the past 60 years, a lot of people, rich and poor, have been displaced from an otherwise immensely rich and varied countryside by the violence of left-wing guerrillas.
Statistics is a science of comparatively recent invention, beginning in the 17th century with analysis of gamblers' odds and flowering in the early 20th with tools for averaging, weighing and guessing.
Prasad notes that Yankee Hindutva has found a felicitous environment on the internet, a point explored in more detail in Lal. 3. Though comparatively recent, a number of academic studies outline the history of Indian immigration, including Takaki, Cao, Asian, and Leonard.
