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Are these sentences correct:

1-A waitress has to be careful with a client who has had she doesn't know how many drinks.
2-A waitress has to be careful with a client who has had she knows not how many drinks.

3-I met a doctor who had I didn't know how much experience.

4-I saw a light which had been on for I didn't know how long.

Does 3 necessarily imply that the doctor had either a great deal or very little experience? Does it imply that there was something 'extreme', so to speach, about the doctor's experience?

Does 4 imply necessarily that the light had been on for a long time?

Does this construction merely denote what it denotes, or does it have some sort of connotation?

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In the case of the waitress, it may be taken literally, I think.

Generally, I have heard this construction used to mean that, using your examples, the doctor has had a great deal of experience and the light has been on a long time.