Collocations for recent - adj.

be

very
comparatively, fairly, pretty, quite, rather, relatively
a relatively recent development

Recent is used with these nouns:
acquisition, addition, advance, appearance, appointment, arrival, bereavement, biography, book, break-in, breakthrough, controversy, convert, decade, development, disappearance, discovery, edition, election, emergence, emphasis, encounter, estimate, event, excavation, experience, find, finding, flurry, furore, graduate, hire, history, immigrant, improvement, incarnation, incident, influx, initiative, innovation, introduction, literature, memory, month, move, news, novel, offering, origin, outbreak, painting, past, phenomenon, photograph, poll, popularity, post, posting, preoccupation, publication, rally, recording, recruit, reduction, release, renovation, report, research, revelation, revision, revival, ruling, scandal, series, setback, slump, speculation, study, success, surge, time, tragedy, trend, trouble, turmoil, update, upsurge, version, vintage, visit, wave, work, writer, year