Answer:
had been
Answer A is correct
Explanation:
They got married in 1980 , so at that time they <u>had</u><u> </u><u>been</u><u> </u>married for 25 years
<em>hope</em><em> </em><em>this</em><em> </em><em>helps</em><em> </em><em>you</em>
Its dramatic btw, and also the suffix makes the word an adjective instead of a noun which the base word "drama" is
Atticus means that they were doomed from the start. With the amount of racism going on at the time, especially in Maycomb, Robinson didn’t have a fighting chance. The racism had been going on for so long and going so strong that the case couldn’t have possibly gone his way. Maycomb’s disease is rumors, falsehoods, and opinions. People there (pretty much everywhere) are slaves to their misconceptions. I hope this helped!
It is a Compound complex sentence