The phrase "a recent tendency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a current or emerging pattern or behavior observed in a particular context or field.
Example: "There has been a recent tendency among consumers to prefer sustainable products over traditional options."
Alternatives: "a current trend" or "a growing inclination".
Luby's exemplifies a recent tendency for the managers: a focus on their home state.
Adherence rates were generally high, whereas average study quality was low with a recent tendency towards improved quality.
Despite a recent tendency toward tougher interviews, especially on "Today," these breakfast-time offerings are essentially social occasions.
Watson has displayed a recent tendency to ramble like your old uncle at a party but he has always been a seriously tough customer.
There is a recent tendency in American female pop stars to look to Europe for inspiration in the middle of their careers.
Cho and Babby have benefited from a recent tendency among team owners to seek candidates with multifaceted backgrounds when hiring executives.
A more recent tendency, the so-called school of the separation of the religious and secular sciences (maktab-i tafkik), accuse Mulla Sadra of conflating the faith and the study of scripture with 'Greek science' and of violating the literal sense of scriptural verses in pursuit of his philosophical agenda; they argue that Mulla Sadra does not represent an 'authentic', scripturalist philosophy.
"If the supreme court upholds the court of appeal's decision that joint ownership means a 50/50 split, this will put a stop to the recent tendency of the courts to infer intentions of the property owners as to how they share the equity in property.
SCORECARD -- The advertisement portrays Mr. Gore as a forceful defender of crime victims and as an enthusiast for the recent tendency to propose constitutional amendments to solve a variety of problems.
In doing so, they provide a corrective to the recent tendency in segments of the liberal media to downplay economic factors and to focus instead on racial resentment and cultural dislocation as the primary forces motivating Trump voters.
These, and hundreds of similar findings, pose a major challenge to the recent tendency to invoke genes when trying to explain our individuality.
