had been importing
- past perfect progressive of import.
Example Sentences
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Petersen said Flexport discovered that one of its new customers had been importing T-shirts with pictures of horses on them under the customs code for live horses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
In recent years, Pakistan had been importing wheat from Ukraine to meet the needs of the province, home to 18 percent of the country’s population.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Thierry Breton, the E.U.’s internal market commissioner, said the bloc has found substitutes for roughly half of what it had been importing from Russia.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
The link can carry up to 2GW of power, and had been importing electricity from France in recent days, after UK prices hit a record high of £540 per MWh on the wholesale energy market.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2021
Before the passage of the bill England had been importing goods more cheaply than Americans could manufacture them.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
