The phrase "a recent request" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a request that has been made not long ago.
Example: "I wanted to follow up on a recent request regarding the budget proposal."
Alternatives: "a recent inquiry" or "a recent appeal."
GONZALES: Senator, it's a recent request.
He is being held in a Moscow prison while awaiting a decision on a recent request for parole.
(A recent request for guidance from a waitress elicited only the statement, "Rare is red; medium is pink").
It was at the GAC's urging that a recent request to create more top-level domain names was reviewed.
American officials said there had been some positive signs, like a recent request by the Kurdish government for help training its forces on crowd control.
And some questions are flat impossible, like a recent request for more information about a journalist who wrote two pseudonymous articles for The New Yorker in 1933.
During my appearance on Gates's show, it was all the way up to 18.9%, which had him joking that I was getting blacker by the year; then, during a recent retest requested by Gates after further refinement of the science, it was down to 5.7%.
Case in point, a recent Twitter request asking women to share their worst dating stories led to a collection of tragic encounters so bad, they're good.
He also said he donates to other people's funds, like a friend's recent request for voice lessons.
So it was doubly surprising when some poor, patient souls with yet-unreplaced busted axes received an apologetic e-mail stating "we see that your recent request for a replacement guitar has been subject to an unacceptably long delay" and promising a free EA game.
And the commission's staff is raising a stink about how Innovative could claim, in its recent request for an extension of tax breaks, to need more money for capital projects while at the same time shipping $28 million off to Belize.
