recentness

Example Sentences

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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

But first, in order that this colossal adventure may be fully grasped, the recentness and the remoteness of Alaska must be emphasized. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by London, Jack

In the list of names upon the outer doors of the firm's vast labyrinthine suite, on the seventeenth floor of the Syndicate Building, his name came last—and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham

At present, their minds are somewhat unsettled by the recentness of their progress; and in the exuberance consequent on such a state, some danger is to be apprehended.

From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

The astonishing recentness of much of our most important knowledge is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of typhoid.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods