We spent the rest of the month trying to get things going again.

The army has been in the city for a month trying to keep the peace.

She has spent the last few months trying to be in different places at the same time.

She spent months trying to land similar work at another agency without success.

Those first months were trying, of course; but the very effort I had to make helped me through them.

I called every week for three months trying to get the cops to do something.

His death did in an instant what he'd spent the last few months trying to do.

And so we wanted the eight months to try to fix things.

I have spent twelve months trying to get it right.

I spent 14 months trying to get out of a wheelchair and people try to talk to me about pressure.