"have a strong affection" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It means to feel a strong emotional attachment or fondness for someone or something. Example: I have a strong affection for my childhood home, and I often visit it whenever I am feeling nostalgic.
I bring this up because Microsoft acts as if its customers have a strong affection for all things Windows.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 — Alice Knott, twenty-three years old, of 803 Twelfth Street, came to her death yesterday through the instrumentality of her pet parrot, an evil-dispositioned bird, who was cordially detested by everybody except his mistress, but who seemed to have a strong affection for her.
"I can see myself back at Celtic, whether it's now or in the future time will tell," Larsson told STV. "I have and always will have a strong affection with the club.
Having been raised by an Irish Catholic mother myself, I have a strong affection for straight-talking but supportive matriarchs, and Mrs. Biden was clearly one of them.
He always had a strong affection for the unconsidered trifle.
Mrs. Turnbull had a strong affection for nature and the outdoors.
They had a strong affection for Bob Dylan, and knew the music to a bunch of his songs.
As for prose, both men had a strong affection for writers living in America — Nabokov, Roth, Bellow, Updike — and a contempt for what McEwan calls the "overstuffed, overfurnished English novel".
As for prose, both men had a strong affection for writers living in America Nabokov, Roth, Bellow, Updike and a contempt for what McEwan calls the "overstuffed, overfurnished English novel".
Claire seemed nice enough – she began as Scottie's beard, but seemed to grow to have a strong mutual affection and dependence.
There are two foods for which I have such a strong affection that we build family celebrations around them.
