Sentence examples for try about from inspiring English sources

To start with, try about 12 different colors.

Of the remaining eighty, there are plans to try about half.

The court has sentenced 605 people since it began work June 5 and intends to try about 2,200 Lebanese.

The eight judges -- three Westerners, two Sierra Leoneans and three other Africans -- will probably try about 20 people.

Jeff Cronin, the spokesman for the C.S.P.I., says the consumer-advocacy group had to try about 10 liquor stores in the Washington area before it could find the stuff.

In an experiment earthworms try about 12 times to bring into their burrow a leaf made immobile by attachment to some object; when an unattached leaf is presented to the worm, it turns to it and ignores the immobilized leaf thereafter.

(Tried not as hard, tried about as hard, tried harder, or tried much harder).

"I tried about 5 times and I got it finally.

The patients tried about 40 different supplements, with fish oil, vitamin B preparations, multivitamins, and melatonin taken most frequently.

For Question 2, the percentages were 6.4% for "tried much harder", 16.8% for "tried harder", 57.7% for "tried about as hard", and 18.6% for "tried not as hard".

He tries about 40 cases a week.