Sentence examples for is recent enough from inspiring English sources

"He is recent enough for us to feel we have something to do with him.

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

Massachusetts has a large number of independent voters, however, and the 2010 precedent is recent enough that we don't completely rule out the possibility of a Republican upset.

Desperation is not a state she much finds herself in these days, though her memory of it is recent enough to sting.

On the nostalgia continuum, 2002 is recent enough to be regarded without gimlet-eyed enchantment but distant enough to still feel vaguely novel.

Twenty years is recent enough for a film, and its stars, still to register in the collective consciousness, and long enough to burnish them with extra affection and take advantage of expanded overseas pickings.

This may simply reflect the fact that the incumbent's convention is often held at a time when the challenger's convention was recent enough to still have some effect on the numbers.

Borthwick, once his duties with Bristol allow, will be a more conventional, understated lieutenant but the testing times he occasionally endured as England captain are recent enough for him to take nothing for granted.

Okay, it sure seems like Facebook wants to get into the wider message space considering today's launch, so apparently the discussions were recent enough to matter.

However, the divergence between Neanderthals and modern humans was recent enough that much of the genetic variation that exists now also existed in the population that split to give rise to both populations.

Promotable Stories Since the Recommendation Engine works only with Upcoming stories, all the stories you get from the Recommendation Engine are "promotable", meaning that they are recent enough to be eligible for the Digg homepage but haven't appeared there yet.