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Discover Ludwig"had been showing" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is a past perfect continuous verb phrase that indicates an action that started in the past and continued until another point in the past. Example: "He had been showing signs of exhaustion for weeks before finally collapsing from overwork."
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But cracks in Twitter's façade had been showing already.
But Price had been showing signs of increasing anxiety.
LIKE many of the county's older villages, Tuckahoe had been showing signs of age.
In recent months, Benedict, 85, had been showing signs of age.
But witnesses said he had been showing the gun off, the official said.
He later said he had been showing off his guns when one accidentally fired.
Recently, her son had been showing my daughter his old family photographs.
Semiconductor stocks, which had been showing strength in recent weeks, pulled back sharply.
One estate agent who had been showing potential residents around the flats said they were still very popular.
Unit labor costs in manu facturing, which had been showing signs of stability, spurted strongly upward in September.
While he had been showing sculpture for three years it was "an epiphany moment," Mr. Edwards said.
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