sudden illness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsuddenandillness
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sudden
adjective
uk/ˈsʌd.ən/us/ˈsʌd.ən/
happening or done quickly and ...
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illness
noun
uk/ˈɪl.nəs/us/ˈɪl.nəs/
a disease of the body ...
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(Definition ofsuddenandillnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Suddenillnesswas raised as one of them.
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It was due to thesuddenillnessof qualified theatre staff.
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Circumstances such assuddenillnessof an examiner may sometimes make a last-minute cancellation unavoidable.
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She died of asuddenillness, aged 29.
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Asuddenillnessmade the young man leave the seminary.
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These are the patients that either are taken withsuddenillnessor meet with some accident in the street.
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It is a fact that from time to time telegrams are used to notify relatives of death orsuddenillness.
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Thesuddenillnessof a committee member or someone appointed to conduct the inquiry would lead to considerable delay.
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I regret as much as anyone that there should be any inconvenience but it was a case ofsuddenillness.
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These tragedies are commonly due tosuddenillnessor accident and a register on the lines suggested would do little to bring them to notice.
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This is a child which is particularly susceptible tosuddenillnessand serious infection that can ruin its health very quickly.
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We are all entitled to expect that, should we suffersuddenillnessor accident and need intensive care, we shall get it.
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Consider what happens when there is an accident or a case ofsuddenillnessin a school and there is no telephone.
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The matter under discussion at the time was the question of marriage in the case of emergency, owing to accident orsuddenillness.
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Thesuddenillnessof the owner-manager of a small business can be a near-fatal blow to the prospects of the whole enterprise.
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He only owed his life on this occasion to asuddenillness.
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He died of asuddenillnessat the age of ninety-nine.
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Removed due to asuddenillnesson the final morning of the trial.
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Suddenillnessand subsequent death in 1921 put an end to his scientific and public career.
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Three years later, asuddenillnessconfined her to her bed.
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They enable people to remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible; people who might otherwise be at risk from a fall orsuddenillness.
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Communities rely extensively on their local hospital to deal withsuddenillnessand injury, to the extent that an accident and emergency department is often regarded as essential.
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Eddy experienced periods ofsuddenillness, perhaps in an effort to control her father's attitude toward her.
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He died after asuddenillnessin 1932, and she herself became ill for an extended period of time.
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While on a skiing vacation, he experienced asuddenillnessand went into cardiac arrest after doctors attempted to insert a breathing tube.
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