Those with a presence longer than 3 months were all benign, barring the malignant yolk sac tumour with rhabdoid elements, which was extremely advanced at presentation, and may therefore have been present for longer than the patient history suggested.
Burke would have been present for Wednesday's meeting.
The problems seem to have been present for some time, without a fix.
At the time, the task force had 36 members, so 19 members should have been present for the vote.
But avian influenza, or bird flu, may have been present for months in some of these countries.
Indian eunuchs, also known as hijras, have been present for hundreds of years in India but remain a marginalized community.
Mr. Vandevelde, he said, "doesn't seem to have been present for the last 12 months; he seems to have lost interest in the business".
There is no way to know whether the abnormal heart rhythms that were addressed today were new or have been present for a long time.
One person involved in the negotiations said Mr. Middelhoff may have been present for only one of the bargaining sessions and Mr. Case for none of them.
This is most true in coordination offices, particularly where there are a lot of NGOs who have been present for a long time.
In the Mississippi Delta, those musical traditions were seeded just a few centuries before, with West African praise songs; in Epirus, they have been present for millenniums.
