The phrase "a pattern of absence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a recurring situation where something is consistently missing or lacking.
Example: "The study revealed a pattern of absence among students during the final exam period, indicating a need for better support systems."
Alternatives: "a trend of absence" or "a recurring absence".
"An employer shouldn't dismiss for someone not turning up on one particular day but for employees who have a pattern of absence, then they could find themselves in a disciplinary in the worst case scenario," Ms Bartlett said.
The cases are presented in a so-called truth table, where each row represents a pattern of absence and presence of a number of conditions, and the linked outcome.
It is therefore possible that such a pattern of absence of decrease and small increase in genetic variation during colonization may be found in other invading pests for which control strategies are used, above a certain density threshold.
He played in only 36 of a possible 73 games during his time at the club, settling into a pattern of absences for injury and suspension that never saw him settle.
Mapping of sequence reads of the isolates of the S. Cerro population further revealed a pattern of gene absence generally conserved within the S. Cerro population sampled here, suggesting that most of the genomic characteristics associated with the emergence of S. Cerro among bovine-associated habitats were present in the MRCA of this S. Cerro clade.
We define absenteeism as a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation, including both a fair pattern such as health workers' leave, and a separate and managerially-addressable pattern such as health workers attending training, collecting salaries, supplies or drugs.
While a false pattern of absence of sliding may contribute to misdiagnose pneumothorax, sometimes a respiratory or cardiac movement of the lung image at ultrasound may be misinterpreted for a false lung sliding (Additional file 6: Video S6).
All the bladders from the control animals have revealed a pattern of normality, with absence of any type of malignity.
One issue is the abstract one of how to explain the rise and stability of a pattern of rule in the absence of any higher authority.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and a pattern of abuse that has now resulted in convictions in towns from Torbay to Rochdale is very likely to be happening in other places not yet identified.
Her twenty-one-year-old mother — "the most beautiful thing that ever lived" — died of complications following Tallulah's birth, leaving her father, Will, so grief-stricken that he collapsed into a pattern of alcoholism, self-pity, and absence which lasted for years.
