21.   Although crime is rare, there has been at least one bizarre case in the recent past.

22.   Among the singers of the recent past, he is more like Alfredo Kraus or Nicolai Gedda than like any of the Big Three.

23.   And even though interest rates have been rising, compared with the relatively recent past they still remain low.

24.   And in the case of the incoming administration in Washington, we are not even talking about the recent past.

25.   And it is one that many investors have heard of, even if its recent past has been far from glorious.

26.   And to those who still doubt our capacity for such achievement, I would ask them to consider not only our distant but our most recent past.

27.   And the overall cost of the courtroom coverage was far less than for other big news events of the recent past, like the gulf war.

28.   And silhouettes, which in the recent past were sometimes too tight to camouflage even a birth mark, were generally eased.

29.   And so the United States and Russia, the powers pivotal to big weapons agreements of the recent past, were left on the sidelines.

30.   And then the air of nostalgia succumbed to the air pollution of the more recent past.