The phrase "a more recent instance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific example or occurrence that has happened more recently than others.
Example: "In a more recent instance, the company faced challenges similar to those experienced last year."
Alternatives: "a newer example" or "a later occurrence".
This saving of heroines, for a more recent instance in another sphere, was rudely accomplished by the Andrews Sisters in the case of the old Irish ballad "Molly Malone".
Some of you will remember a more recent instance of this, in which the new leader of the Labour party inadvertently read out the stage direction "strong message here" during a speech.
Fey swigs her wine and gives an example: "You know how Sally Field was Tom Hanks's love interest in Punchline and then, like, 20 minutes later she was his mum in Forrest Gump?" A more recent instance would be the revelation from Maggie Gyllenhaal that she was deemed too old, at 37, to believably play the love interest of a 55-year-old actor.
In a more recent instance of executives making an impact through social media, Tesla Motors Inc's Chief Executive Elon Musk said last week on Twitter that something "exciting" would be announced.
A more recent instance was the naming (after considerable delay) of Elizabeth Warren as a special advisor to organize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, followed by the decision in July not to nominate her as the first director of the bureau.
A more recent example of the second approach incorporated both consensus and genomic instances in the analysis but excluded reads aligning to more than a single repetitive element subfamily [ 13].
But geneticists, with information from the human genome now at their disposal, have begun to detect ever more recent instances of human evolutionary change like the spread of lactose tolerance in cattle-raising people of northern Europe just 5,000 years ago.
The Fort Dix case from New Jersey in 2007, and the more recent instances of the sole terrorism suspects in Portland, Washington, DC and Baltimore are among the many cases in which some sort of entrapment was alleged (at least, at the outset).
City Pages reports that the Giefer's facility has recently been shut down -- 13 days after the new allegations about the more recent instances of rape had come to light.
A more recent study for instance has questioned the beliefs about the prevalence of adverse effects from the use of computers.
That anti-abortion post, for instance — and a more recent one congratulating Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch — seemed to cost him a few followers on the left.
