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

“We’re in 49 degrees 10 minutes south latitude,” he observed after a short interval during which he had been calculating his reckoning, “and 68 degrees 45 minutes east longitude—if that information can help us!”

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

She had been calculating and figuring so keenly in her woman’s way.

From The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country by Cullum, Ridgwell