advance
verb (used with object)
to move or bring forward.
had been advancing
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past perfect progressiveof advance.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Both safe haven assets had been advancing for the past week as rising tensions in Ukraine sent investors seeking safety.
From Reuters ● Feb. 23, 2022
The evidence supported Wilson’s contention that Brown had been advancing toward him.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2015
Pretentious and absurd as this may sound, I had been advancing the theory that I somehow found it easier to write fiction in a place with a view of mountains.
From Newsweek
Instead of being strung out in vulnerable "pursuit formation," Ridgway had been advancing carefully, compactly, on constant guard against surprise attacks and flank threats.
From Time Magazine Archive
An officer of some importance, who had been advancing with a small escort along the side of the bush, suddenly rode up, mounted on a mule, and halted beneath the trees occupied by the sailors.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
