1. Recently
Prices dropped recently.
Until quite recently, people in developed countries didn't care much about the environment.
I was at a musical recently, in the third row. Seeing the actor I love up close like that made me feel more smitten with him than ever.
More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.
More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations.
And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.
Recently, what with this and that, I haven't been able to sing so today I sang like there's no tomorrow!
George was describing a 30 pound bass he'd caught recently after fighting it for three hours.
I went to the dentist recently and he did a cast of my teeth and took an X-ray, 'just in case.' It sounds like a good business to be in.
That you should be stalking Hanako! You'd been quiet recently so I'd let my guard down.
Recently I've stopped being afraid of "living in shame" and being exposed to "public ridicule".
Many people suffer from heart disease in Japan, but in Libya those having heart attacks have also increased a lot recently.
Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.
Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island wished they had stayed there longer. They were taking a badly damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
Actually, and I need to keep this quiet, but recently here there's a rumour that young women on this beach are having photos taken in secret of them.
2. recent
This a recent photo?
What slips in and out of view in the background is the real estate slump of recent years.
With regard to your letter of July 22nd, I enclose our most recent catalogue.
The massacre in Norway and the recent rebellion and the booty in England, are dreadful in consideration of the circumstances that the world drifted into.
The major result from recent investigations of Emmet's theory has been that it can be applied to biochemistry as well.
A recent analysis by Boeing forecasts that unless safety is improved, jet airliners could be falling out of the sky at the rate of once a week by the year 2010.
In a recent article about activities to keep your brain young, they mention Esperanto along with Sudoku, which shows that Esperanto is becoming part of popular culture.
Google shows a special colorless version of its logo to countries that have experienced recent tragedy.
Recent overseas transfers show that productivity improvements in Japanese manufacturing industry have almost reached their limit.
Certainly there are inequalities in level of education even within a generation, but there have been no visible inequities between machines and materials in recent years.
The recent news about the Fukushima I nuclear power plant will likely strengthen the cause of the advocates who want to let our local nuclear power plant's license expire.
For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere.
This United Nations resolution calls for the withdrawal of Israel armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.
In recent months, there has been a considerable increase in oil prices. 'Is this your recent photo?' - 'No, it was taken years ago.'
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.