long illness

One of Prince Charles's best friends, Hugh van Cutsem died yesterday at the age of 72 after a long illness.

He died, after a long illness, at Stand Rectory on the 24th of August 1876.

No long illness, no racking pain, no lingering with the consciousness that he was a burden to others!

During all his long illness he had never ceased, with his father's help, to trade in real estate.

It was a long illness; a family gets used to a long illness, and after a while accepts it as the natural course of events.

She was very tranquil, resting as people rest after a long illness, in a sort of convalescence of the heart.