The phrase "absent a large" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the lack of something significant or substantial in a particular context.
Example: "Absent a large budget, the project will face significant limitations in its scope and execution."
Alternatives: "without a significant" or "lacking a major".
"Growth skewed towards the few (or absent for a large minority) risks social tensions, undermines institutions and encourages policy failures of one kind or another".
Absent a larger budget deal that includes tax reform and reins in non-discretionary spending on Social Security and Medicare, the most likely result is a larger deficit.
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the escalation was "long overdue". "Absent a larger coherent strategy, however, these steps may prove to be too little too late," he added.
And as a mother, I know that messages like these, absent a larger context, are not good for our children especially given the frighteningly fierce hurricanes we've witnessed over the past several months and the catastrophic wildfires raging here in northern California.
Creating a parsimonious set of generic health measures absent a larger set of disease-specific measures is extremely seductive but ultimately misguided.
Trees and shrubs were generally absent, but a large variety of herbaceous plants occurred with the grasses.
We sequenced one of these genes, TAF15, in patients with ALS and identified missense variants, which were absent in a large number of healthy controls.
We identified three missense variants in EWSR1 in ALS patients, which were absent in a large number of healthy control individuals.
The prominent remain campaigners have been mainly absent in a large triangle of England stretching throughout the East Midlands to Peterborough, Norfolk and Suffolk, an area which has been the preserve of the leave campaign.
