1.   Both polar regions show evidence of more extensive glaciation in the recent past.

2.   But the pessimistic climate of the recent past is gone.

3.   Contemporary intellectual history is an element in my present enterprise, though the very recent past is hard to see clearly.

4.   Devlin confirms that story, adding he began looking at recent past orders from Scott Supply.

5.   Her normally lucid style had slipped and she had forgotten huge chunks of the recent past.

6.   In a number of instances, actual boundary stones remain, or have been recorded in the recent past.

7.   That does not mean formal, just not as casual as in the recent past.

8.   The optimistic economic climate of the recent past has gone.