Sentence examples for years trying to figure from inspiring English sources

I spent seven years trying to figure out the answer".

"I spent the next 13 years trying to figure out how I got there".

Once Lerner and Loewe finally started on the show, they spent many hours — days, weeks, years — trying to figure out how to combine their talents with Shaw's.

Mr. Currier, who has spent many years trying to figure out how to play such music on a modern piano, was elated.

She lost her son and all she had believed to be true about him, and has spent 17 years trying to figure out what happened and why.

You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it.

I spent the summer before my senior year, trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life.

NASA, struggling to get human space exploration moving again, had spent the previous year trying to figure out how good these telescopes were and what, if anything, they could be used for.

"It's a shame," said her next-door neighbor Ruby Fulmer, 92, a retired nursing professor who said she had been calling 311 for more than a year trying to figure out how to solve the mystery of Ms. Copeman.

After spending more than a year trying to figure out what sort of video programming Internet users will pay for, Yahoo is set to introduce its first subscription video service.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.