"It took me a long time to recover from that."
She missed a month of school and it took her a long time to recover fully.
But your reason was not substantial, why there is no time to recover.
It was taking them a lot of time to recover, though, because - get this.
The average time to recover is one to six months.
Well that it was distant, for he had no time to recover.
At least it would give her more time to recover.
It will take him a long time to recover from the shock, if ever.
She thought it better to leave her time to recover.
It probably would take her a long time to recover completely.