numerous attempts
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numerous
adjective
uk/ˈnjuː.mə.rəs/us/ˈnuː.mə.rəs/
many:
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attempt
noun[C]
uk/əˈtempt/us/əˈtempt/
the act of trying to do something, especially ...
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Despite numerous attempts to estimate the level of returns to scale in the data, there is no broad agreement in the literature on its value.
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The decidability of this problem remained an open question for many years, despite numerous attempts to solve it.
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Numerous attempts have been reported that aim to maintain some desired hopping height, forward speed, body orientation, etc., at certain phases of the hopping cycle.
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Numerous attempts have been made to simulate various possibilities.
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In spite of numerous attempts by third parties to analyze international political interactions, these studies obviously neglect the role of economic interdependence in third-party relations.
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Researchers have made numerous attempts to do so, but each has its own problems.
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Numerous attempts at estimating right ventricular ejection fraction by cross-sectional echocardiography have been disappointing.
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However, despite numerous attempts from a policy as well as a user side to embrace the principles, flexibility in housing design has never been fully accepted.
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There have been numerous attempts to relaunch it, none of which has been successful.
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After numerous attempts to get employment, they give up.
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In the last few years there have been numerous attempts to reform local government finance.
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Numerous attempts to resolve these differences and reduce the mass of practice to coherent rules have been made.
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There have been numerous attempts to find such evidence, but it has not been found.
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I have made numerous attempts to raise the matter by tabling questions.
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He had made numerous attempts to escape.
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We note that in the past eight years numerous attempts have failed to bring about any effective change in the reduction of hours for junior hospital doctors.
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It is only because of the failure of those numerous attempts that we are driven to adopt compulsion in some form or other if we are to succeed at all.
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There has always been controversy about how it is calculated and the geography to which it is applied, and there have been numerous attempts to find a better solution.
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Hence, to save the processing cost for manufacturing ethylene, numerous attempts have been made to convert ethane directly to vinyl chloride.
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