mine
pronoun
a form of the possessive case of I used as a predicate adjective.
had been mining
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past perfect progressiveof mine.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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The nuclear material came from an unidentified leader of an “ethic insurgent group” in Myanmar who had been mining uranium in the country, according to prosecutors.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
When the corporate incursion to the valley began in earnest, in 2003 or so, local farmers had been mining the aquifer gently for the last 60 years.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
Hours earlier, the Guardian reported that the NSA had been mining phone records from millions of customers of a subsidiary of Verizon Communications.
From Reuters ● Jun. 8, 2013
“I scoffed at it initially,” Mr. Davis recalls, noting that SAS’s big corporate customers, like banks and insurance companies, had been mining huge amounts of data for decades.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2012
On the Colbricon Massif, in the upper Cismon Valley, the Austrians had been mining toward Italian advanced positions.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
