restrict
verb (used with object)
to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
had been restricting
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past perfect progressiveof restrict.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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Members had been restricting their hours since February 2023 in a dispute with Wales's 22 local councils.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024
Yet since the 5th century they had been restricting their operations to their own shores, and are barely heard of in the chronicles of their southern neighbours.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
