have been exceeding
- present perfect progressive of exceed.
Example Sentences
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Daily deaths have been exceeding 2,000 for the first time since early May, and close to 100,000 Americans are already hospitalized.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
Well," said the magistrate, after due reflection, "you don't appear to have been exceeding the speed limit, but at the same time you must have been guilty of something, or you wouldn't be here.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
And by this means, I could also presently judge of any small filament of glass, whether it were hollow or not, which would have been exceeding tedious to examine by looking on the end.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert
Had they fallen on the deck or over-board, why their chance would have been exceeding small.
From Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Power, Tyrone
Ninth, nearly all who have tried to answer what I said have been exceeding careful to misquote me, and then answer something that I never uttered.
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest by Ingersoll, Robert Green
