She worked from home after a knee operation in 2011 and only took a brief absence from work after fracturing her pelvis in a skiing fall in 2014.
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He was stoical in the aftermath, scoring two goals on his return to the side after a brief absence from the team.
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In discourse analysis, speakers use brief absences of speech to mark the boundaries of prosodic units.
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