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past con·tin·u·ous

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  1. past continuousnoun

    A tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past period of time.

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  1. Past Continuous

    Past Continuous is a 1977 novel originally written in Hebrew by Israeli novelist Yaakov Shabtai. The original title, Zikhron Devarim (Hebrew: זכרון דברים) is a form of contract or letter of agreement or memorandum, but could also be translated literally as Remembrance of Things. Past Continuous is Shabtai's first, and only completed, novel. It was written as one continuous 280-page paragraph (broken up in the English translation), with some sentences spanning several pages.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of past continuous in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of past continuous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of past continuous in a Sentence

  1. Martin Tobias Lithner:

    Only in very special individuals is there a sense of a past continuous self.


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