The phrase "a attempt" is not correct in written English.
The correct form is "an attempt" because "attempt" begins with a vowel sound.
Example: "She made an attempt to solve the complex problem."
Alternatives: "a try" or "an effort".
Yesterday's green paper represented a attempt to widen the focus to embrace the relationships between parents, children and the wider family.
A attempt to try General Jaruzelski in 1996 for giving the orders to shoot ended after the general, who suffers from back and kidney problems, complained that he was too ill.
The main complaint from the academics was that Mr. Jackson had emphasized the story's battles and hair-breadth escapes, perhaps in a attempt to appeal to the young men who make up the bulk of the moviegoing audience.
President Obama seemed to offer Mr. Netanyahu some political cover on the issue in a meeting on Tuesday at the White House, widely seen as a attempt to patch relations after public disagreements between the allies about the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
In a attempt to come up with a last-minute compromise, Mr. Simmons and his associates met for more than seven hours behind closed doors with the three men in the State Capitol on Wednesday but emerged with no concrete agreement.
In 2006, Moscow imposed sanctions, banning, of all things, imports of wine in a attempt to deal Georgia's economy a crippling blow.
