1.   A recent phenomenon has been the development of groups for adults who grew up with an alcoholic parent.

2.   Background and History Compacts are a comparatively recent phenomenon.

3.   Comprehensive food labelling is a fairly recent phenomenon.

4.   Compulsory state education for all is, in the historical sense, a recent phenomenon.

5.   Detailed food labelling is a fairly recent phenomenon.

6.   Indeed, the notion that all students should engage in serious academic work and learn it deeply is a relatively recent phenomenon.

7.   The cell phone is a relatively recent phenomenon.

8.   The idea of equal pay for women is a recent phenomenon.

9.   But such links are rare in Japan, and the interaction with foreign scientists is also a recent phenomenon.