they were stopping
Past progressive they conjugation of stop.

stop

In fact, not so long ago, on a CBC documentary some of the head people at the Canada weather bureau admitted that they were stopping doing long-term forecasting, which they used to do when they'd be two, three, four months ahead.
En fait, il n'y a pas si longtemps, dans un documentaire du CBC, quelques uns des gens de tête du bureau Canadien de météo ont admis qu'ils ont arrêté de faire les prédictions à long terme sur deux ou trois mois habituelles.
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