had been assembling
- past perfect progressive of assemble.
Example Sentences
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Jones listened to hundreds of songs to decide which nine should go on the album, and employed a dream team of musicians and songwriters that he had been assembling over the years.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2024
The 10-year-old Dutch bike maker, headquartered in Nunspeet, about 50 miles east of Amsterdam, had been assembling about 600 e-bikes a day prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
From The Verge ● Mar. 31, 2020
A group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, led by Svante Paabo, had been assembling a draft sequence of a Neanderthal genome, using DNA recovered from bones.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2017
Prominent collector Marcia Weisman had been assembling a contemporary art collection there on a shoestring budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2015
After the shooting, Osceola and his followers repaired to the fastnesses of Wahoo Swamp, where for some time Indians had been assembling from exposed villages.
From Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola by Perry, F. M. (Frances Melville)
