The phrase 'contribution to the present' is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you can use this phrase to refer to something that has had a positive influence on the present day: "The invention of the telephone has made a huge contribution to the present - we can now communicate with each other across the world in a matter of seconds."
As the British Geological Survey puts it: "The contribution to the present day atmospheric CO2 loading from volcanic emissions is … relatively insignificant".
In this context it should be said that although Renoir was not one to let the struggle show, his one contribution to the present exhibition is also a painting of rocks at L'Estaque dated 1882.
and wrote the screenplay for Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things, and directed by Michael Apted, who has alternated between documentaries and feature films, Amazing Grace is a very decent contribution to the present bicentennial celebrations of the parliamentary bill that outlawed the slave trade in the British empire.
"We have no choice but to change", said Thomas Ryder, head of the Reader's Digest Association.Ironically, given its contribution to the present bout of optimism, TV advertising also faces serious long-run threats from ad-evading systems such as TiVo to the proliferation of other media which the industry may be inadvertently assisting.
This study represents a contribution to the present state of research and provides some interesting results on crack propagation in CFRP repaired elements close to real riveted ones.
Much more research is needed to discover the number, extent and survival of these distinctive expressions of pre-modern attitudes, institutions and behaviours, and their contribution to the present landscape.
In this study we analyzed the complementary information provided by both markers with the aim of surveying (i) the geographic origin of current Cuban ancestors, (ii) the extent of the admixture present among these, and (iii) their differential sexual contribution to the present-day Cuban gene pool.
We thank Dirk Höper for early stage contributions to the present studies, Robyn Eijlander and Oscar Kuipers for plasmids and strains, Jette Anklam for technical assistance, and Thijs Kouwen, Albert Bolhuis and Erhard Bremer for helpful discussions.
