The phrase "afflicted him for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation where someone has been troubled or harmed by something over a period of time.
Example: "The illness afflicted him for several years, leaving him in constant pain."
Alternatives: "troubled him for" or "burdened him for".
That, however, is not the Dubliner's style, as the putting woes that have afflicted him for close to two years continue to gnaw away.
Sir Henry Cecil, the winning trainer, missed seeing Frankel for the first time as he recovers from his latest round of chemotherapy for the stomach cancer that has afflicted him for six years.
This picture is classic Beckmann, showing its subject as young and vigorous but with a penetrating, uncertain expression and a misshapen right hand, a reference to the partial paralysis that afflicted him for much of his later life.
More significantly, according to Rowe, Larkin's invention of Coleman was the catalyst which broke the writing block that had afflicted him for most of his Oxford years.
1161 March 1185 Jerusalem, Israel Baldwin IV, byname Baldwin the Leper, French Baudouin le Lépreux (born 1161 died March 1185, Jerusalem) king of Jerusalem (1174 85), called the "leper king" for the disease that afflicted him for most of his short life.
Lenin's illness at least mimicked the progression of syphilis, afflicting him for months with occasional seizures and excruciating headaches, as well as bouts of nausea, sleeplessness and partial paralysis.
That in itself presents them with a tricky dilemma, because playing for a draw is a dangerous game, especially if Petr Cech has another one of the brain melts that only seem to afflict him when playing for his country.
He said he could not get heat into the front tyres - a problem that has been afflicting him on and off for several races.
Now they are much less sure and for good reason.Some of the factors depressing shares are the same ones that have afflicted them for the past decade.
People like the researcher Gilles Le Cardinal and Jean Vanier, who has created networks of support groups and communities for the afflicted, teach him much about Walker's hidden mind.
Uncontrolled seizures can be very dramatic and have serious consequences for both the afflicted person and for those close to him/her.
