"effort" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Across this another door barred his way; but this, too, gave before his efforts, for it was not barred.
- Tom Casey, a State Department spokesman, said, "This is a law enforcement matter that began before our efforts to conclude a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement."
- The wrapping paper seemed to moan before their relentless efforts.
- Before Mr. Murray's suburban logging efforts, almost all of the trees cleared for home- and road-building on Long Island ended up as landfill or firewood.
- MacFarland's got on very well before your well-meant efforts to turn it into a bear-garden.
- Before their efforts, the variation was called the Lasker-Pelikan Variation.
- KTBC described Town Lake before Butler's efforts as an "eyesore".
- Before Costello's efforts, there were only three non-governmental American shortwave broadcasters on the air; by the end of the decade, that number had increased to sixteen.
- The Met's populism in the parks, however, began long before Mr. Gelb's admirable efforts to bring opera to the masses.
- They all looked much older, somehow, than they had before their efforts on her behalf.
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