we had intervened
-nous étions écoulés
Past perfect we conjugation of intervene.

intervene

Since then, I have often wondered how many millions of lives could have been saved if we had intervened as early as in the 1930s.
Je me suis souvent demandé par la suite combien de millions de morts auraient pu être évitées si l'on était déjà intervenu dans les années 30.
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