Example sentences of "been trying for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karen Gorbutt , 30 , from South London , has been trying for years to get her partner , Matthew Allen , 30 , to be considerate around the house . |
| 2 | Great local artists like Gilberto Gil have been trying for years to promote their country 's music , but ( as with the African-music boom ) it has taken the combination of an enthusiastic American super-star and cosmopolitan French audiences to really make the change . |
| 3 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 4 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 5 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 6 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
| 7 | We have been trying for years , centuries , to establish this and it is only because of help from outside that we have been able to do it now . |
| 8 | Scientists have been trying for years to realize the potential of hydrogen , but they have been thwarted by the problem of storing the gas , which is highly explosive and needs to be kept in high-pressure containers . |
| 9 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |