Sentence examples for were lost owing to from inspiring English sources

In schools run by state governments, 13% of all school days were lost owing to absent teachers in 2006.

According to Bradford metropolitan council, between September 2012 and Easter 2013 more than 41,000 days of education were lost owing to parents in the city taking their children out of school for holidays during term time.

Having lost two Bf 109s in the first raid, two more were lost owing to the pilots running out of fuel or being shot down in combat.

All baseline data from a small set of cases were lost owing to server failure.

Some of the old medical files were lost, owing to the legal obligation in Denmark to store medical files for 10 years only, making them difficult to register and validate in the ASR.

External rotation data for one female specimen were lost owing to a pull-out failure of the lateral iliofemoral ligament at its femoral attachment under the 5 Nm external rotation torque when the hip was in a position of full flexion and full abduction.

Millions of lives are lost owing to these.

In the case of BaTiO3, the centre of symmetry is lost owing to the transition from a cubic to a tetragonal structure, which shifts the Ti4+ ion away from the central position that it occupies in the cube.

Much visible evidence of the earliest cultures of Anatolia may have been lost owing to the large rise in sea levels that followed the end of the last Ice Age (about 10,000 years ago) and to deposition of deep alluvium in many coastal and inland valleys.

The ship had been due to sail on 26 December, but as one of its passengers wrote: "A beautiful day, & an excellent one for sailing, — the opportunity has been lost owing to the drunkedness and absence of nearly the whole crew.

Therefore, the T1 primordial top layer of at least several meters could have been lost owing to the sublimation process.