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"had been breaking" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
It is used in the past perfect continuous tense to talk about an action or event that began in the past and continued up until a certain point in the past. For example, "I had been breaking my back for days, trying to finish the report on time."
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Their revolvers had been breaking down at a rate of 60 to 90 a year.
He had been breaking things in the house and was rude to her.
The ice near the bottom of the hole was warmer than expected, and it had been breaking badly.
The famous New York purge, for example, disproportionately affected nonwhite voters, who had been breaking for Clinton.
Mr. Jiang confessed that he had been breaking and entering for almost two years, the court documents said.
Fighting between government troops and guerrillas had been breaking out every few days in this drug-producing region, and she had grown accustomed to the sound.
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Barriers had been broken.
She had been broken, confused.
The spell had been broken.
A spell had been broken.
A taboo had been broken.
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