The phrase "absence for almost" is not correct and usable in written English as it lacks clarity and context.
It may be intended to express a duration of absence, but it needs additional information to convey a complete thought.
Example: "Her absence for almost a week was concerning to her friends."
Alternatives: "absence of nearly" or "absence for nearly".
(Her judgments sound rather McEwanesque: among fellow judges she is "praised, even in her absence, for crisp prose, almost ironic, almost warm").
If the music press had worked itself into a lather about the decade it took Axl Rose to finally release Chinese Democracy, then there was no such fanfare for Jones, despite an absence of almost two decades.
During his absence from Greece for almost two years, he acquired a reputation as an international statesman of considerable stature.
As an application of this result we prove that in the non-limit periodic case, the criterion of Jitomirskaya and Simon ensuring absence of eigenvalues for almost periodic Schrödinger operators is only applicable on a set of zero Haar measure.
In the absence of noise, for (almost) all initial positions the particle will move down to one of the two minima (uniquely determined by the initial conditions), and there it will remain, with no transitions between states (remissions and relapses).
And the chef, Chris Gesualdi, is back for his second tour of duty after an absence of almost four years.
About two-thirds of Graham County in North Carolina is national forest, and the elevation ranges from 1,170 feet to almost 5,600, so visitors go for the lakes and the mountains and the absence of almost everything else.
February 1 2012 February 6 201212 "Russian Seasons" (2006), Alexei Ratmansky's first ballet for the company, returns to the repertory after an absence of almost four years.
Donovan, a three-time World Cup veteran, was picked for the 23-man roster for next month's Concacaf Gold Cup and can end an absence of almost 11 months.
He watched the second leg and the Wembley final on crutches, and was then helpless as forwards were recruited in his absence while rehabilitation dragged on for almost 10 months.
