Timeline for {had been / was} used for centuries before
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @MakotoKato I see no reason to 'anchor' the sentence in the 1960s, so I'd go with was there. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 16:06 | comment | added | Makoto Kato | Here's the original post: "In this age of Political Correctness, it seems that many people frown upon the use of "he" as a gender-neutral pronoun though it had been universally used for centuries before the women's liberation movement in the 1960s. So what should we refer to the Christian God as: she, it or they to avoid the wrath of such people?" | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 12:48 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @MakotoKato Well, what was your context? | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 7:21 | comment | added | Makoto Kato | Neither was my case. The sentence was near the beginning of my post. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 2:41 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |