Existence of continued fraction $\sqrt{n}$ with any period $k$

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In this paper it is conjectured that for any positive integer $k$ there are infinitely many primes $p$ with the continued fraction expansion of $\sqrt{p}$ having length $k$ (Conjecture 5.1, https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/mathlab/public_html/jr02fall/Periodicity/alexajp.pdf )

Do we have the weaker result that for any positive integer $k$ there exists at least one prime $p$ with the continued fraction expansion of $\sqrt{p}$ having length $k$ ?

Or perhaps relax the restriction of prime $p$ to any positive integer $n$ ?