had been approximating
- past perfect progressive of approximate.
Example Sentences
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Yet the fact also remained that to the conservative, correct, and, as she believed, secure condition to which she had been approximating, all her relations were rudely shaken and upset.
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Harte, Bret