11.   Six weeks later, his mother Wilma, who had been battling illness for several years, passed away.

12.   Mother Teresa has been battling illness for years.

13.   She has been battling illness for years.

14.   The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has been battling illness for years.

15.   The victim, whose name and age have not been released, died after battling an illness doctors suspected was tuberculosis.

16.   Then Wynette, with whom he had renewed a friendship and worked with again after years of acrimony, died after battling various illnesses for much of her life.

17.   Papandreou is hospitalized in Athens where the outgoing prime minister has been battling illness since November.

18.   She had battled illness since childhood, when she suffered polio, scarlet fever and pneumonia and was told she would never walk.