Sentence examples for been trying for at from inspiring English sources

"I've been trying for at least 16 years" to get more restrictive abortion regulations, he said.

"People have been trying for at least 20,000 years to do what we're doing, probably longer -- since humans ever existed," he says.

But because of an ideological divide, lawmakers have been trying for at least two years to agree on a new five-year bill that would continue financing for farm and nutrition programs.

Esther Houser, the state long-term care ombudsman in Oklahoma, said, "We've been trying for at least 15 years" to get the state Health Department to take a more aggressive approach to enforcement.

In a similar vein, China Digital Times, a media-monitoring website, says censors have been trying for at least a month to stop the media from saying any more about the political career of Liang Wen'gen, one of China's richest businessmen who is a delegate to the party congress.

The company had been trying for at least two years to unload $6 billion worth of international assets, including properties in Latin America and a power plant in India.

For all six cases lifestyle intervention as well as advice concerning diet and exercise had been tried for at least six months before the visit in question.

I wrote on Wednesday about a question that is becoming more pronounced, if the current polling is to be believed: "If California Legalizes Marijuana, How Will Obama React?" What I didn't include in the article, because I was trying for at least "semi-serious," was the totally-unrelated story which came out the same day.

Rebel forces have been trying for months — at times claiming success — to shoot down government planes and helicopters in midflight.

Laughter, preferably Julia's laughter, is always being tried for; at one point her approval is literally transcribed: "The anxious infants awaited her burst of laughter.

As a consequence, different nutritional interventions have been tried for women at high risk of nutritional deficiencies, including supplements of specific micronutrients, such as zinc, iron and folate, magnesium and calcium, given either singly or in combination.