The phrase "a recent query" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a question or request for information that was made not long ago.
Example: "I received a response to a recent query I submitted regarding the project timeline."
Alternatives: "a recent question" or "a recent request".
A recent query of top scientists addressed this very issue.
Responding to a recent query, Kentucky Fried Chicken said in a statement that it was "aggressively pursuing the cessation of all confusingly similar use of the famous KFC trademarks and trade dress by Kennedy Fried Chicken".
"I'm rarely asked about it," Mr. Bartlett said, although he did recall a recent query from an Alaska newspaper, The Juneau Empire, which ran a short account about it in September.
For instance, a recent query (search using the ISBN number) for a sociology textbook generated results that listed the lowest prices in each category: used, new, rentals, e-books, and international editions (those versions can be cheaper).
"If you're relying on Mr. Long Island for romance, the only thing I can guarantee is that there's a pretty good chance you won't be needing any ideas for a second date," Mr. Watt wrote in response to a recent query.
For example, a recent query for the chemical 'arsenic' at the PubMed interface from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Web site yielded >20 000 scientific articles.
A recent queries box is also part of the graphical user interface, where at most 10 historical queries are listed with information about the number of results and whether the query was valid or not.
One junior faculty member at a U.S. campus with a Confucius Institute responded to a reporter's recent query with an e-mail explaining that to be identified as a critic could end his career: "I am an untenured professor in a department which receives a lot of money from a C.I., which is run by senior faculty that will vote on my tenure case".
A reporter's recent query left us grinning ear-to-ear with holiday cheer: Has the dividing line between "good debt" and "bad debt" changed in today's rocky economy?
For example, a unique identifier and description of the user's most recent query on a web server is shared in memory via memcached (www.memcached.org) between all servers in the pool.
" 'Remember that night you said you'd do 'Hamlet?' " he said wistfully, quoting a Chicago actor friend's recent query.
