program
noun
a plan of action to accomplish a specified end.
had been programming
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past perfect progressiveof program.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 programming prime time for only a few years and did not yet have the rights to NFL games.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2015
Under Polish Conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who had been programming an imaginative spectrum of Western music, the orchestra began presenting school concerts all over the state, lowering student-ticket prices at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis to $1.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many departments were already deep in their planning for fiscal 1957; thanks to the long haul, the Air Force, for example, had been programming fiscal 1957 since Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
