When you're talking about a habitual / repetitive process ( I often bought books ) or a prolonged condition / situation in the past ( I loved books; I had many books ) : " I / P languages " have the imperfect and English uses the past simple.
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As members of the studio audience discovered during four hours of taping inside Stage 17 of the Warner Bros . lot, the making of a half-hour sitcom _ even one as breezy and seemingly spontaneous as ABC's " The Drew Carey Show " _ is a laborious, time-consuming, repetitive process.
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To provide a set of matching items that are sorted according to some criteria quickly, a search engine will typically collect metadata about the group of items under consideration beforehand through a process referred to as cache so that users can see the state of the item at the time it was indexed or for archive purposes or to make repetitive processes work more efficiently and quickly.
