export
verb (used with object)
to ship (commodities) to other countries or places for sale, exchange, etc.
had been exporting
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past perfect progressiveof export.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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That’s good news, as Iran had been exporting some 1.5 million barrels of oil a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Up until just two weeks ago, von der Leyen said, Ukraine had been exporting electricity to its European neighbors, generating much-needed revenue for the country, which has seen its economy collapse amid Russia’s invasion.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
Before the war, Ukraine had been exporting as much as 7m tonnes of grain a month.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2022
It had been exporting almost 6 million barrels a day before the Iranian revolution in 1979.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2018
During the early 1750's merchants paid up to twenty shillings per hundred pounds, even though Virginia had been exporting from 38,000,000 to 53,000,000 pounds annually.
From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by G. Melvin Herndon
