qualify
verb (used with object)
to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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We have another man who has been qualifying for many years.
From The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book by William F. (William Frederick) Bigelow