Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally Mugabe , 59 , the wife of President Robert Mugabe since 1961 , died on Jan. 27 after a long illness . |
| 2 | Ho Dam , 62 , one of North Korea 's most senior statesmen and , since 1983 a member of the politburo of the ruling Korean Workers ' Party and Chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland , died in Pyongyang on May 11 after a long illness . |
| 3 | Peter Skinner , regional general manager , Asia and East Africa , died peacefully on Wednesday October 14th after a long illness which both he and his family had fought against with great courage . |
| 4 | When he died in Oxford 10 June 1975 after a long illness , he was engaged on a biography of his famous godfather . |
| 5 | On 2 October of the same year William Jowett Titford , great-grandson of William the Emigrant , wrote to his mother in London : ‘ The father of our relation W. C. Titford died at Frome June 6th after a long illness ’ . |