Past continuous for temporary past habits
The past continuous is used to express repeated or regular actionA general term expressing that somebody or something does somethings in the past which were temporary (temporary past habits):
At that time she was seeing him twice a week.
I was getting up at 5 am to be able to get to work by 6.
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