measure
noun
a unit or standard of measurement.
had been measuring
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past perfect progressiveof measure.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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It had been measuring the required 500-foot distance between schools and dispensaries from door to door, not from property line to property line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
It is understood bosses at Frasers Group had been measuring the productivity of staff on Fridays since the start of the flexible working scheme and decided to pull people back into the office.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2022
Higgins told Fox News Digital it was at her 20-week ultrasound when she learned Jari had been measuring small.
From Fox News ● Feb. 23, 2022
They had been measuring concentrations of stress-related hormone metabolites in the feces of right whales in the Bay of Fundy.
From The New Yorker ● May 6, 2019
In the meantime, Gascoigne had been measuring an equilaterial triangle of twelve paces, and marked it out.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
