Her son had been absent only five or six times, she said.

He has been absent from his son's life since the boy was 11.

A sense of history has been absent from the whole process.

He had been absent the day the photo was taken.

Each has been absent from the American market for more than 15 years.

How long have you got before you're absent without leave?

From what I know about him, he'll be absent for quite some time.

Father is absent without leave from a third of all American families.

In another, an absent father or parents who never worked.

Soon she would have been absent from her home for a whole year.

For the moment, I was what they call an absent man.

Did I ever tell you the story of the absent man?

Certainly the world is a house which will become absent.

He has been absent from his national team since then.

In the last two years he's been absent for almost all of them.

If the man were absent longer his pay was cut.

We had a father, but he might as well have been absent.

One always happened to be absent when the other was on hand.

On any given day, about 15 percent of the city's 1.1 million students are absent from school.

But given its recent problems, the company has been absent from the market for some time.

"They do not have the right to be absent at the moment when the children need them the most."

She has been absent 28 days so far this year.

It was not clear how long Brown would be absent from practice.

He had been absent from the list for two years.

Most, absent or present, lost their land after the war.