"attempt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Unfortunately, while he was able to close the gap to only one metre, three successive attempts to dock failed.
- Detroit made seven successive field-goal attempts to end the first half.
- However they did not experience that much success, failing to make the top five in three successive attempts.
- In every successive attempt to throw off the mound, the pain increased.
- As in motion pictures, a "take" is each successive attempt at capturing a performance.
- In music, a take similarly refers to successive attempts to record a song or part.
- There have also been successive attempts throughout the 1980s to restrict the benefits available to immigrants.
- The miss was his first at closer than 40 yards since 1986, covering 12 successive attempts.
- Despite successive attempts over the next several years, such legislation was never passed.
- Since that time successive attempts have been made to reform the position but to no avail.
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