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"having been ill" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a past participle phrase, and is used to refer to an event that has already occurred. For example, "Having been ill, I was unable to attend the event."
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Ms. Manulis died after having been ill with lung cancer, her daughter, Nancy Glick, said.
Her mother died when she was 23, having been ill with cancer for more than 10 years.
According to celebrity news website TMZ, Wallace died on Friday night at home with her family by her side, having been ill for a few months.
Unfortunately, she never will: public records show that Day committed suicide on May 18 , 2011 at age seventy, having been ill for several years beforehand.
When Putin was in his early 30s, three general secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in a row died suddenly — without, if the official media were to be believed, ever having been ill.
"Having been ill [he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in his 20s], and having grown up with a dad in the public eye a bit, people trust you because they assume you've had to deal with a certain amount," he says.
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Bulgarians are justly suspicious of Westerners writing about their country, having been ill-treated in G.B. Shaw's "Arms and the Man," Malcolm Bradbury's "Rates of Exchange," and John Updike's story of "The Bulgarian Poetess," contained in "Beck: A Book".
She had been ill for several years.
She had been ill for some time.
"The baby has been ill.
Also, Sabathia's father has been ill.
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