Sentence examples for a comparatively recent idea from inspiring English sources

While the concept, as she puts it, "may be the first scientific idea that kids have to grapple with", as they play with their toy dinosaurs, Kolbert instructs that, actually, it's a comparatively recent idea that dates to Enlightenment France.

* * * The Vatican bank is a comparatively recent institution.

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.

It's important to remember that the story as we know it is a comparatively recent phenomenon.

True, the novel is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Arabic literature; poetry, an ancient art, has traditionally held wider prestige.

The other, the granite-faced eight-times grand slam winner Ivan Lendl, is a comparatively recent addition to the cast.

A comparatively recent Duke of Argyll (probably the 8th, 1823-1900) raised cattle on his estates & took an interest in the welfare of cattle in general.

"I stood next to you on the risers during concerts!" Matt was talking about a shared history from 1978 — a comparatively recent past.

The overall story has long been one of fear-mongering and rank hypocrisy, but the debasement of the ACMD is a comparatively recent twist.