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had been inhabiting

  • past perfect progressive of inhabit.

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"These settlers built communities alongside the American Indian tribes who had been inhabiting Louisisna since at least 700 BCE," Martin writes of the Spanish and French settlers who'd colonized Louisiana.

From Salon Sep. 25, 2022

The ad did not specify exactly which era the pageant had entered, nor which era it had been inhabiting for the past century.

From Slate Jul. 9, 2018

In that brief space of time she had realised that she had been inhabiting a fool's paradise.

From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil