Convalescence Sentence Examples

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  • Convalescence usually takes a lot of time.

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  • Convalescence is generally slow, and recovery may be imperfect.

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  • The long-term prognosis looked good and arrangements made for a friend to stay with her during her convalescence.

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  • A little work is good for convalescence.

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  • I understand you have friends doing your chores, and your hospital bill has already been paid through tomorrow, so stop worrying and complete your convalescence.

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  • Typical case requires convalescence over 7 days; chronic infection with liver damage may occur.

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  • The ensuing lengthy convalescence from the required surgery in Dublin, served as an incubator for Darby's discontent.

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  • Euan Baird has resigned as chairman of Rolls-Royce due to a long convalescence.

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  • The early discharge policy resulted in the median postoperative hospital convalescence being reduced from 5 to 3 days (P 0.001 ).

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  • Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence.

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  • Brain surgery followed, then convalescence, and eventually Greg and Karen married.

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  • From f 409 onwards he became a mere invalid, only able to assert himself in rare intervals of convalescence.

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  • All true football fans will wish him a speedy convalescence.

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  • Having spent five months in bed, I was over the acute stage and was allowed three months convalescence.

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  • During convalescence two books that were to influence his life were brought to him.

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  • He did not recover his health for more than a year, and as soon as convalescence set in he was seized by so profound a melancholy at the disaster which had thus overtaken him, that he threw himself into the Seine.

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  • During Mrs Grote's slow convalescence at Hampstead, he wrote his first published work, the Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform (1821), in reply to Sir James Mackintosh's article in the Edinburgh Review, advocating popular representation, vote by ballot and short parliaments.

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  • Convalescence is usually prolonged.

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  • Careful nursing gradually restored him to health, and on his convalescence he resolutely maintained his decision to remain in Africa, and, if possible, to work there in future on behalf of the German government.

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  • In October 1623 he suffered from a dangerous attack of illness, and during a long convalescence wrote his Devotions, a volume published in 1624.

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  • Convalescence is, however, generally slow, and recovery may be imperfect - the disease continuing in a chronic form, which may exist for a variable length of time, giving rise to much suffering, and not unfrequently leading to an ultimately fatal result.

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  • Dolokhov recovered, and Rostov became very friendly with him during his convalescence.

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  • A joyous feeling of freedom--that complete inalienable freedom natural to man which he had first experienced at the first halt outside Moscow-- filled Pierre's soul during his convalescence.

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