Sentence examples for had been in progress for from inspiring English sources

By time we reached ballroom, which was much warmer than street, shooting had been in progress for 7 hrs.

The case had been in progress for several years by the time he returned to the United States attorney's office as its chief.

It admits that in March this year 11,804 applications lodged with the Met had been in progress for longer than 130 days.

The second raid had been in progress for about 15 minutes when, further down the line, the ground erupted in huge clouds of smoke and flame, and after the blasts came the enormous pull as air rushed into the vacuum.

The building's developer and owner, Yair Levy, said that the work had been in progress for about six months and that there had been no previous problems at the site.

When Korczak died in 1982, the project could have foundered; it had been in progress for 34 years and still, despite vast quantities of rock having been blasted away, the pink granite crag did not look even remotely like a warrior on horseback.

Some have been in progress for months.

But of course, the transition has been in progress for months.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office faces others, some of which have been in progress for years.

Improvements in model handling of drainage have been in progress for the 2014 version of Adapt-N.

The serious scholarly study of religion from an evolutionary perspective has been in progress for about 15 years.