Sentence examples for absent for some time from inspiring English sources

Diane Barbee had reported that, before the authorities arrived at the fire, Willingham never tried to get back into the house — yet she had been absent for some time while calling the Fire Department.

This assumption is valid because if the owner has been absent for some time, the isolated luggage item will be detected faster using the foreground-mask sampling technique.

While they talk to each other, Rihanna's partner leaves the table and is absent for some time, during which Rihanna watches the other tables.

"Mandela has been an absent presence for some time now," explains Ebrahim Fakir of the Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa.

But a lot of what's here carries a strain of critical fierceness and existential seriousness that has been absent from Japanese work for some time.

His performance exudes qualities that have been absent from him on screen for some time: fallibility, humility, warmth.

After Game 1 of the World Series between two storied clubs who had been absent from the championship stage for some time was finished on Tuesday night with little excitement, Wednesday's Game 2 marked a return to true midwest perseverance on a cold night in north-east Ohio.

However, selection does require some variation and Schwartz (1999) suggests that a continuing usefulness supplement is needed, which kicks in if variation is absent for a time.

One would naturally expect those individuals who have taken more time off due to illness to have worse health than those who have been absent for less time.

In this approach, the primary user is either present for the whole time slot, or absent for the whole time slot.

In this study, data analysis is guided by the notion that hand, arm, shoulder and neck symptoms might be episodic and are recurrent in nature: symptoms are present at a certain time point, symptoms are absent for a certain time period afterwards and then may come back again.