had been proportioning

• 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 proportion.
  proportion

  noun

  comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.

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