had been maintaining
- past perfect progressive of maintain.
Example Sentences
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SVB had been maintaining protection against rising rates on a sliver of its bond portfolio — but began to drop even those in early 2022, booking millions in profits by selling off the protection.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
The submarine had been maintaining radio silence and was unaware of the events taking place on the surface.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Hiring began in 2016, when Rivian kept on a handful of former Mitsubishi employees who had been maintaining the shuttered factory, but it has accelerated in the last year and a half.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
Second-placed Van Aswegen said the key to his 65 had been maintaining a positive attitude after dropping two shots at his seventh hole.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2017
He had been maintaining that the human soul was itself a form, an eternal form, and that the light within his brain would go on forever and always.
From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack
