The teacher was a talented educator, but the progress of her students was limited by the school's open floor plan, scarcity of instructional resources, and near absence of parental involvement. (gse.harvard.edu)
The preference for «climate change» and near absence of «global warming» reflects patterns observed in public and media discourse, too. (theconversation.com)
In the span of a few years, the once towering game genre had fallen from market dominance to near absence on retail shelves. (adventureclassicgaming.com)