Sentences with phrase «child than in the recent past»

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The most recent estimates from local authorities put the number of home schooled children in the UK at more than 36,000 — a figure which has increased by 65 % over the past six years.

But recent studies on primates and preschool children suggest that the development of mendacity is more subtle than this and may have its roots deep in our evolutionary past.

The ghostly presence of Emily Brontë makes The Lost Child more than the sum of its parts, and the resonances Phillips explores between the literary past and the recent historical past echo in the mind long after the novel is finished.