calculate
verb (used with object)
to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute.
had been calculating
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past perfect progressiveof calculate.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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Qorvis Communications , a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, said it had been calculating its carbon footprint since 2009.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2014
Economists, nutritionists, urban planners and public health professionals had been calculating what the scale of the relief task ahead would be.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2011
Here was a new stunner—I had been calculating on four or five thousand.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
A page torn out of the calendar lay before her—she had been calculating again how many days must elapse before Mr. Langhope could arrive.
From The Fruit of the Tree by Kimball, Alonzo
Here was a new stunner—I had been calculating on four or five thousand.
From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.
