There was a marked absence of pomp and circumstance on a sunny afternoon yesterday.

Despite the loss of the club's elite status after two years in the top flight, there was a marked absence of the rabid ranting and raving of many radio phone-ins.

The religion was animistic, with a marked absence of elaborate myth or ritual.

The revision of statutes proposed in 1725 was at once carried through, with the result of a marked absence of disputes between the civil and ecclesiastical courts.

He would be in uniform when he drove his marked car there or to his home in the city.

Bike troopers are issued a marked car with a trailer hitch, a trailer and motorcycle.

The group was brought to court in two police vans, surrounded by marked cars and with a helicopter hovering overhead.

The prisoner was being driven to a police station when he asked about the marked car's powerful engine.

I have noticed a number of marked cars and motorbikes overtaking me travelling well in access of speed limits with nothing to indicate they were attending an emergency.

However, there had been a reconciliation since with his family, as well as 'a positive, marked change in his condition'.

Within this chronology, the author argues for the 1230s as a time of particularly marked change in the organization of lawyers as a profession.

There has been a marked change since last year's budget.

His voice was clear rather than resonant, and seldom showed emotion or vehemence, or indeed any marked change of tempo.

Such a marked change in direction will not happen by itself.

Subsidy schemes were shut and planning policies tightened, resulting in a marked drop in onshore wind development.

This represents a marked drop in grade and, with cheekpieces fitted for the first time, he can return to form.

The miners weighed on the large-cap index, with a marked drop in metals prices and after gains earlier in the week.

This was the slowest deterioration in household finances since the end of 2010, helped by stabilising incomes and the most marked drop in debt levels for more than two years.

That would be a marked drop from the economy's 0.7 per cent pace of expansion in the final quarter of last year.

His changed thinking will have a marked effect in his pastorate, not only in counseling but also in preaching, administration, visitation, and evangelism.

Restriction of credit from suppliers could have a 'marked effect' on working capital, it added.

The desirability of diesel varies hugely with the type of car and has a marked effect on residual values.

This has had a marked effect on my everyday life.

His musical diversions also had a marked effect.

We have noticed a marked lack of good deals on long-haul trips as the extra charges are applied.

There has always been a marked lack of evidence.

They have a dignity all their own and a marked lack of self-consciousness.

In fact, it's a cluttered conventional staging enlivened by whizzy video effects, but sandbagged by a marked lack of energy.

Perhaps these new-style managers are all tactical geniuses and this more than compensates for the marked lack of rigour with which they address the playing staff.

This former point-to-pointer has been campaigned over hurdles since winning his only previous start over fences, showing useful form on several occasions and exhibiting a marked preference for testing conditions.

But the community has a marked preference for cross cousin and parallel cousin marriages.

They also have a marked preference for cross cousin marriages.

And it did so on the basis of the marked preference for liberal and progressive causes, rather than conservative and reactionary ones....

This woodpecker shows no marked preference for particular tree taxa, building its nest in gymnosperms and angiosperms alike.

The decline in output may have been sharper had it not been for a marked reduction in backlogs of work, as companies diverted spare capacity towards completing existing contracts.

Published research confirms that these guidelines have led to fewer embryos being transferred and a marked reduction in the number of high order multiple births.

Since the timetable change, peak time services have seen a marked reduction in frequency.

There has been a marked reduction in smoking in government offices and in places such as large modern hotels which are subject to the regulations.

The second half of the 1950s, therefore, opened with a marked reduction in the visibility and marketability of science fiction.

You can bike along a marked route, taste olives or sign up for the special environmental activities.

The roadway was a state marked route from 1951 to 2009.

The route was a state marked route from 1949 to 1992.

The climber(s) should be able to climb the difficulty of the marked route before asking him/her to test it.

He leaves, following the marked route to the tunnels.

It showed a marked tendency to leave the window and dance around my torch, so my examination was not too prolonged.

Philosophy and economics are both distinguished from similar disciplines by a marked tendency towards scholasticism.

In the first phase, numerous tribunals were established, but the period after 1495 saw a marked tendency towards centralization.

As common in rails, there has been a marked tendency to evolve flightlessness in island populations.

He was characterized by his delicate musicality and aestheticizing spirit, plus an abundance of neologisms, and a marked tendency towards attention to detail in his description of landscapes and environments.

A marked trail along the crest descends to the sandstone escarpment.

To climb the mountain, with a permit cross through the geothermal power plant and follow an easily marked trail through the treeline.

Cyclists can ride bikes on bridleways and officially marked trails and tracks.

The park contains a marked trail through the former hunting site, with eight information areas describing the natural environment, its plant species, and results of archaeological research to date.

The wilderness has one marked trail and a few cabins.