The phrase "a recent tendency of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a current trend or pattern observed in behavior, opinions, or events.
Example: "There is a recent tendency of consumers preferring online shopping over traditional retail."
Alternatives: "a recent trend of" or "a recent shift in".
There is a recent tendency in American female pop stars to look to Europe for inspiration in the middle of their careers.
"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.
Furthermore, the recent tendency of multi-core CPUs leads to an increase in the processing power and multiprogramming level; more processes and larger memory page sizes may lead to thrashing even faster.
"It's a new way to run a country," says Bill Bishop, co-author of "The Big Sort," a 2008 book that examined the most important cause of the trend: the recent tendency of like-minded people to live near one another.
Re "Faces and Tickers and Blurbs, Oh My!" (Backslash, Jan . 13, in which Matt Richtel lamented the recent tendency of cable news channels to pack all kinds of headlines and other information onto the screen: I've been complaining for some time about this trend in news programming, which has grown since Sept. 11.
The notion that analysis must consist somehow in the uncovering of hidden meanings underlies also the recent tendency of some of the Oxford philosophers to take as their business an examination of the subtle irregularities of ordinary language.
Reports of inferior results, except in younger males with primary osteoarthritis, are most probably responsible for the recent tendency of decreasing use of HRA especially in females (AOANJRR 2008).
However, if the recent tendencies of fire weather continue, the survival of the forest biome in its present boundaries is not possible (Tchebakova et al. 2009).
Nevertheless, there is a recent overall tendency of increasing contribution from older age groups toward life expectancy.
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.
