The phrase "absences before" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to previous instances of absence, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The report highlighted the absences before the final exam, which affected the students' performance."
Alternatives: "previous absences" or "prior absences".
He took attendance, noting a few absences, before turning to a discussion about the German filmmaker Harun Farocki.
The 8-year-old living in a homeless shelter and attending a school overwhelmed with transient children — where truancy can be a sign of something dangerous — racks up 30 absences before someone has the time to notice.
A common policy for seminars allows three absences before decreasing student letter grades by one half (on their class participation, final project, or even overall letter grade) for each additional absence unless the student has a Dean's Excuse (which vary across residential colleges).
However, three declined after receiving the baseline questionnaires, and two took personal leave of absences before the study began, leaving 16 females and 21 males recruited for the study (45.1% recruitment).
The effects of 10 min ECS, 10 min BNP, pretreatment of BNP for 3 h, and pretreatment of BNP for 3 h + IBTX were examined in the absence ("before treatment", Fig. 8a-left) and presence of treatments ("after treatment", Fig. 8a-right).
The compartmentalization effect of radicals was surprisingly absence before 30% monomer conversion but became pronounced afterwards in the miniemulsion polymerization.
"How do you photograph absence?" Before the Holocaust, the region had been home to many Jews.
"Yes, the public might think it odd," conceded Hodgson of Vardy's absence, before explaining why he had allowed it.
In January 2011, he took another medical leave of absence before stepping down in August as Apple's CEO.
With 12 minutes to go, they broke with the kind of purpose conspicuous by its absence before.
Then he stopped, clearly struggling with, what for him, was a double negative, recalling an absence before there was an absence.
