Preposition: on

• top: Stories are placed here when they expire from the news pages and are filed in date order, most recent on the top.

Preposition: at

• top: History: The history list will display the articles you have recently looked at, the most recent at the top of the list.

Modifies a noun

• year: Much has been made in recent years of the Gnostic gospels.

• survey: The data in the figure is taken from a recent national survey of elderly people.

• graduate: The first ever participants of Insight Out, West Midlands, offering business training for recent creative industries graduates from the area.

• month: The death rate has risen even more in recent months.

• publication: A range of recent journal publications will be provided to cover the developments in mineral processing.

• decade: This has, in recent decades, become comparative religion.

Modifying Another Word

• comparatively: The most important aspect of Java, and it's a comparatively recent one, is the J2EE edition.

• relatively: For example, in these relatively recent publications, Jacques Le Goff, Intellectuals in the Middle Ages, trans.

• fairly: With this and other fairly recent developments we've agreed to a slight restructuring.

• very: It is always possible that today's apparent majority, which is of very recent origin, may not last.

• quite: A: Most students who come on the course are quite recent graduates, and have good undergraduate qualification.

• so: This history is so recent that all those now writing about it will also have experienced it.

Used with adjective complement

• include: Multiple features are supported including most recent restore, incremental backups, archive verification and archive management.