I returned home after an absence of two years.

After an absence of seven years, I went home.

After a long absence, she returned home.

He came to school after a long absence.

He suddenly appeared after a three year absence.

He appeared unexpectedly after three years of absence.

I returned to my hometown after five years' absence.

I returned to my native village after two years' absence.

Australia, Germany, and Japan returned after a 16 year absence.

But the proof has been almost entirely negative Today, America s importance has become apparent from the absence of US leadership in one crisis after another an absence that is most immediately obvious in Syria.

But the proof has been almost entirely negative Today, America s importance has become apparent from the absence of US leadership in one crisis after another 160 an absence that is most immediately obvious in Syria.

Are we perhaps pursuing too mechanical an ideal which confuses the absence of privilege and disadvantage with the absence of diversity?

Many people attribute these failures partly to an absence of American leadership.

Faced with absence.

But can an absence of clarity about the ECB s voting arrangements last forever?

Consider the absence of an early tsunami warning system in the worst affected countries.

The absence of an effective soft power component undercut the strategic response to terrorism.

Nobody noticed her absence.

Nobody noticed my absence?

For China, a deeply self confident country, to be back simply means regaining the country s historical centrality in the world after an absence of more than two centuries.

Opponents of recent economic policy rebel against the hypothesis that an absence of government intervention and support could produce an economic decline of that magnitude today. After all, modern economies are stable and stubborn things.

Moreover, in the absence of an impartial judge, a winner can always impose his truth upon the vanquished, as happened with the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.

In the absence of consensus

Peter came in your absence.

I soon noticed his absence.

I soon noticed his absence.

Behave yourself during my absence.

Behave yourself during my absence.

But, as matters turned out, their absence did not hinder the parties from reaching an agreement.

The National Bank of Ukraine has reported an absence of bids to purchase Sberbank s Ukrainian offshoot .

Procedures in the absence of notification

And everyone immediately felt his absence.

Darkness is the absence of light.

Did anyone come in my absence?

We were disappointed at her absence.

His absence was due to illness.

Fear is the absence of trust.

Much had changed during my absence.

In the absence of assurances of such an outcome, a presidential level meeting should not be tried.

Medical help arrives promptly after an accident.

At the very least, there has to be an absence of violent opposition, including the threat of secession.

In the absence of an effective, common response, Europe s crises fester, feed on each other, and foment unilateralism.

All in all, India s place on the Security Council offers an extraordinary opportunity, after two decades of absence from the global high table, to demonstrate to the world what it is capable of.

In the absence of media and absence of institutional justice, the only thing one can do is protest!

In Levin's absence an event took place which suddenly put an end to the joy and pride that Dolly had been feeling all day.