had held
-avait tenu
Past perfect he/she conjugation of hold.

hold

Thanks to this invention, their creator Catherine Hettinger would today be in the Guinness Book of millionaires if she had held onto the property rights to the patent for a few more years.
Grâce à cette invention, sa créatrice, Catherine Hettinger, pourrait aujourd’hui être dans l’Olympe des millionaires si seulement elle avait conservé la propriété du brevet quelques années de plus.
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