Examples of 'had been ongoing' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been ongoing"

had been ongoing: This phrase indicates that a specific activity, process, or situation has been continuously happening or progressing over a period of time. It implies that the action or event has been in existence or development without interruption

How to use "had been ongoing" in a sentence

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had been ongoing
The investigation had been ongoing for over a year.
Sources within the police department informed us that … an investigation had been ongoing for years.
Preparations had been ongoing for months.
The discussion concerning the issues within the Committee 's mandate had been ongoing for many years.
Negotiations had been ongoing for some time now.
Discussions of forming a new united party had been ongoing for years.
The Arab-Israeli conflict had been ongoing for many years and showed no signs of abating.
This was the last step in a quality process that had been ongoing for ten years.
Levodopa treatment had been ongoing for 10 days before the first testing of drug effects.
It turned out that pollution had been ongoing for years.
However, Luna explained that the conflict between Yaqui towns over the pipeline had been ongoing.
An investigation had been ongoing for years.
The representative of Egypt said that the Egyptian school feeding programme had been ongoing since 1951.
The merger plans had been ongoing for some time.
Discussions and studies regarding a transit link to the airport had been ongoing since the 1980s.

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The battle for tribe leader had been ongoing between brendan and coach at timbira.
Since the 1960s, construction of the huge prefab panel buildings had been ongoing.
This suggests the practice had been ongoing for some time previously.
After they launched an official investigation, Marriott discovered that the breach had been ongoing since 2014.
It was noted that negotiations had been ongoing for over ten years without much progress.
It was part of an outsourcing program that had been ongoing for some years.
The symptoms had been ongoing for 2 years, without a definitive diagnosis.
It was unclear how long the investigation had been ongoing or its primary focus.
The study had been ongoing for five years and involved 65 women.
DeStefano remarked that the investigation had been ongoing for about two years.
The situation had been ongoing for 18 months, there were real financial pressures.
At the time, it was claimed that discussions had been ongoing for months.
Two projects had been ongoing for 257 days up to the date of the audit.
Negotiations with Dedicated Records, a satellite label of BMG, had been ongoing for several months.
Shelling had been ongoing since the night of 14 January.
Follow-up dialogue had been ongoing.
This conflict had been ongoing since August 1947 after the Partition of India.
Coal mining in the Sneyd area of Burslem had been ongoing since the 18th century.
As the sales procedures had been ongoing since 2003, the urgency is also not sufficiently explained.
Preparation and development work for the project had been ongoing since 2000.
By April 2010, production had been ongoing for fifteen months and the film was still incomplete.
Planning and lobbying for the Cultural Centre had been ongoing since the 1960s.
The Iranian Revolution had been ongoing since 1978 through strikes and demonstrations.
By June / July 888 the siege of Cai Prefecture had been ongoing for more than a hundred days.
The hazing allegations had been ongoing for more than 2 years.
In 60 % of these cases, the investigations had been ongoing for more than one year.
A relationship that had been ongoing for 4 years.
Programmes to improve teacher qualifications had been ongoing at local, regional and national levels.
The bloody Iran-Iraq War had been ongoing for nearly 8 years.
The bloody Iran - Iraq War had been ongoing for nearly 8 years.
As of 2006, the search for such a progenitor had been ongoing for longer than a century.
Negotiations to update the Treaty had been ongoing since the fall of 2011.
Committee hearings on Bill C-204 had been ongoing for several months.
This affected the Angolan Civil War that had been ongoing since Angola 's independence in 1975.

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