For weeks, I spent hours trying different ways to get through to him.

I spent another half hour trying to figure out what I'd done wrong.

You've spent hours trying to figure out how to break the bad news to your friend.

I've spent the past few hours just trying to figure my way out.

He had spent hours trying to make sense of it.

Well she were there for two hours just trying to.

She would often work 80 hours a week trying to make a home for her two boys.

He spent hours trying to talk me out of it.

I spent something like an hour trying to form that one simple thought.

"And I spent an hour trying to get back out!"