Sentence examples for pretty absent from inspiring English sources

Rubio was pretty absent from early campaigning here, but has recently stepped up his presence quite a bit.

Your landlord is still pretty absent but you earn money now and the estate agents now at least pretend to treat you as an equal.

Well, the landlord's still a bastard and is still pretty absent, but you earn money now and the real estate agents now at least pretend to treat you as an equal.

On the other hand, if one looks at more stringent surveys such as the Shanghai Jiao Tong world universities rankings, which heavily relies on research output and the quality of faculty, top Philippine schools have actually been pretty absent in the list -- clearly indicating the dearth of investment in building up the Research and Development (R&D) capacity of leading institutions.

But Friedman is pretty much absent.

This kind of cartoon is pretty much absent from the magazine nowadays.

At a hefty $26 for the red, customers may expect refinement and subtlety, which I found pretty much absent.

What Redknapp has imposed upon the Spurs of Bale and Modric and Van der Vaart and such promising young England contenders as Michael Dawson and Kyle Walker is a pattern of coherence which he says is pretty much absent from areas of his own life.

I think what's going on behind the worst of the worst mafia-dons-turned-politicians is they are operating in places where the state is pretty much absent.

In this case, the hacking case, frankly it was pretty much absent.

Immigration has been pretty well absent from the 2013 election campaign, not featuring in the debate between the two main candidates to lead the country.