Sentence examples for having needed from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'having needed' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something was necessary in the past. For example, "I had to save for months, having needed the money to make the purchase."

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Djokovic is the fresher of the two, having needed "only" 13 hours 58 minutes to advance.

Having needed extra time to break the deadlock, River had won 3-1.

The wind whipped the rain jacket I had ordered back in September, not having needed one for the past nine years.

Thursday morning, she confessed to literacy difficulties, and to having needed assistance in writing a letter to Martin's mother that's been entered into evidence.

But having missed the French Open with a back injury and having needed knee surgery in February, he arrived here lacking sharpness and miles in his legs.

There's a certain mutuality of abasement here, with one poet's littleness being put on record, while the other is diminished by having needed to mention it.

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It has needed two.

And they've needed it.

None has needed government investment.

Lucy had needed a transfusion.

He had needed a wife.

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