qualify
verb (used with object)
to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent.
have been qualifying
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present perfect progressiveof qualify.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Their teams have been international successfully and have been qualifying for World Cups.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2011
Seriously, I have been in weekly hopes of hearing of your arrival in the Merse, and have been qualifying myself by constant excursions to be your Border Cicerone.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
