convert
verb (used with object)
had been converting
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past perfect progressiveof convert.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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Wake Forest had been converting just 41% of its third-down opportunities coming into the game, while FSU’s third-down stop rate was 31.5%.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
That means companies that had been converting results from Venezuela into U.S. dollars at the official exchange rate of 2.15 must now convert at the new rate of 4.3 if the goods are deemed nonessential.
From Reuters ● Jan. 11, 2010
I should think, judge, that Sam Kimper had been converting you over again and doing it backwards.
From All He Knew A Story by John Habberton
For months the colonel had been converting his property into paper dollars.
From Jack O' Judgment by Edgar Wallace
