Sentence examples for fairly recent developments from inspiring English sources

And in fact, huge law firms, hot areas of practice and outsized salaries at top firms are fairly recent developments.

Three fairly recent developments have coalesced to force this arcane and confusing corner of the law into an emotionally charged spotlight.

"It's headed in a positive direction, but these are fairly recent developments," Brin says.

Their existence as a trio is a fairly recent development.

The cavernous opera houses now found in major cities worldwide are a fairly recent development.

But Geraghty feels this fairly recent development may have had something to do with the very deep, sapping ground Sprinter Sacre has been running through this winter.

In Britain, at least, it is a fairly recent development that this should be so and in political terms it is obviously a healthy one.

(Was there ever a more satisfying make of car to proclaim in a pantomime German accent?) But there are also more ponderous and thoughtful interludes, a fairly recent development in the series.

But neonicotinoids have the explanatory virtue of being a fairly recent development and also one which, as these two pieces of work suggest, could be a common factor in weakening a colony without actually pushing it over the edge.

Other researchers studying the fossil record suggest that a prolonged middle childhood is a fairly recent development in human evolution, a luxury of unfolding that our cousins the Neanderthals did not seem to share.

This concentration on the plein-air landscape tradition reflects another fairly recent development in taste (there is part of a similar private collection, the Gere collection, on show at the National Gallery in London at the moment) - the taste that brought the oil sketches of the Welsh painter Thomas Jones to international attention.