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The programs had been succeeding, with many villages reporting no teenage pregnancies or marriages.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2022

Reagan said the Marines had been sent to Lebanon at the request of that country's government as "a stabilizing force" and had been succeeding in that mission when the terrorist attacks began.

From Time Magazine Archive

But recently, he had been succeeding better in this latter.

From The Indian Drum by Balmer, Edwin

No one will probably maintain that in those cases in which the development of scrofula had been succeeding those diseases, that this has resulted from a poison generated by the preceding disease.

From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)