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had been curtailing
  • past perfect progressive of curtail.

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For some months before my sickness I had been curtailing my hours of sleep.

From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)