had been advancing
- past perfect progressive of advance.
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
We had been advancing towards the pond, and were now close to the magnolia under whose shade I had slept.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
