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Discover LudwigThe phrase "had lived for" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to talk about something that happened in the past and lasted for a period of time. For example: "He had lived for many years in the same city before moving to a new location."
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Ms. Lebov, 52, had lived for decades with multiple sclerosis.
He had lived for many years in New York.
But, of course, Adams had lived for years in England.
His family had lived for centuries in Ávila.
She said Blake had lived for her sons.
He had lived for almost nine hundred years.
Susan Abulahawa was born to Palestinian refugees from Jerusalem, where her family had lived for centuries.
It was a convenience reminiscent of Manhattan, where she had lived for years, she said.
The thought of losing the apartment where she had lived for six years rattled her.
I imagined what he, if he had lived for another two years, might have written.
A suburb where I had lived for 10 years lost two men.
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