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Discover Ludwig"had been dwindling" is correct and can be used in written English
It is the past perfect continuous verb form, indicating an action that started in the past and continued until another point in the past. Example: The company's profits had been dwindling for months before they finally decided to make changes to their marketing strategy.
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In that instance, Mr. Sucher and his friends had enough water to spare, but he considered what he would do if his own supply had been dwindling.
It wasn't completely unexpected – activity on the app had been dwindling, and Twitter was facing intense pressure to turn its business around.
David Bonter, an ornithologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., said this is one reason the species, which had been dwindling in number, has seen a comeback in recent years.
The number of Saudi students in American colleges had been dwindling, from a high of 10,000 a year in the early 1980s to barely 4,000 last year.
"There's not much left to salvage," Anders Trapp, an auto industry analyst at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken in Stockholm, said, noting that Saab's customer base had been dwindling as the problems grew.
The protest had been dwindling in the lead-up to the shooting, at midnight, with only around 75 protesters mingling in the area in front of the police station.
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Recently, however, public interest has been dwindling.
But its membership has been dwindling from 130 in 2006.
For months, the number of employees has been dwindling.
Harlem's historical base of African-Americans has been dwindling.
The practice has been dwindling fast in the US.
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