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"had been delivering" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are talking about something that was in progress in the past before being interrupted or stopped. Example sentence: The UPS driver had been delivering packages all day when he was suddenly called away on an emergency.
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He had been delivering deadlines for weeks to the government.
Airbus had been delivering more jets than Boeing for several years.
Officer Snow had been delivering $46,000 in cash to the Hi-Way Check Cashing Service.
Southern Water had been delivering poor service and misleading Ofwat about its data for five years, until 2005.
The Convention speech, he knew, could not resemble the anti-Bush speeches that he had been delivering around the country.
He said that the government had been delivering batches of rice to the school every fifty minutes.
It was a seminar-style talk the group had been delivering for years, but now things were different.
In 1939 a young Tom Miller had been delivering copies of the Times Picayune in New Orleans.
Beck had been delivering impassioned rants against Sunstein for months, calling him "the most dangerous man in America".
With seasonal fluctuations, the department's recycling trucks had been delivering roughly 20,000 tons of plastic, glass and metal each month to Sims's sorting facilities.
Such efforts helped take pressure off terminals that had been delivering so much gas to firefighters, police departments and hospitals that they had limited supplies for the public.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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