had been overshooting

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of overshoot.
  overshoot

  verb (used with object)

  to shoot or go over, beyond, or above; miss.

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