time
noun
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
have been timing
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present perfect progressiveof time.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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“As we all know, certain agents and players have been timing their contracts so that they would become free agents in ’16 ’17, knowing that we were going to be entering into new television agreements.”
From Washington Post
Vanderbank, who appeared to have been timing himself, put up his watch.
From The Awkward Age by Henry James
