Example Sentences

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Things had been changing, they said, since the league’s early years, when sponsors came in the form of family-run meatpacking businesses, broadcast deals were next to nonexistent and players were reluctant to ask for more.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

Although the area had been zoned for industrial purposes, it had been changing, with new restaurants opening up around the corner.

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

Things had been changing so rapidly and deteriorating so quickly.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2020

They found that the emergence of new pathogens tended to happen in places where a dense population had been changing the landscape—by building roads and mines, cutting down forests and intensifying agriculture.

From Scientific American • Mar. 11, 2020

Since going off to private school—and hanging around the Object—my tastes had been changing, becoming refined, I thought.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides