had been chancing

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of chance.
  chance

  noun

  the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency.

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