Columbia was trying for its first 3-0 start since 1996.

I have not tried my Sony since this morning, but will try again later.

I have tried since the robbery to hold it together.

It has been trying since 1993, for reasons that are mainly environmental.

The newspapers had been trying him ever since his arrest.

The government has tried since 2002 to provide more basic services to the citizens, but progress is slow.

Attempts to take the land had been tried since the 1970s, but have intensified recently.

He had been trying since Mass to put a name to that cast of features, but none would come.

Investigators have been trying since 1994 to make a murder case stick against the two men.

Here in Chicago, such interventions have been tried since 1996, when some schools were put on probation.