The phrase "a bid to return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an attempt or effort to go back to a previous state, position, or place.
Example: "The organization launched a campaign as a bid to return to its former glory after the recent setbacks."
Alternatives: "an attempt to return" or "a move to return".
Haymon's gambit might be seen as a bid to return boxing to the athletic mainstream.
It recently announced more than 5,000 job cuts in a bid to return to profitability by 2015.
Many Hutu refugees reconstituted into rebel groups that carried out attacks in Rwanda in a bid to return to power.
He added that the government would now consider separating R.B.S.'s troubled assets from its healthy banking operations in a bid to return the bank to private investors.
Since then, they have been shedding assets in a bid to return to normal business and create a buffer against ever needing taxpayer handouts again.
Next week he will submit a bid to return Hamburg's best-known hotel, the Vier Jahreszeiten (Four Seasons) from foreign to local ownership.
"Better than Morning Glory", has become many a critic's meme when reviewing post-Morning Glory Oasis albums, thrown into reviews in a random fashion as a desperate bid to return the band to the halcyon days of old.
It's a conspiracy by bald men at Fox TV in a desperate bid to return the show to the global ratings domination it enjoyed a few years ago.
The media magnate is making a strong bid to return to power just over a year after he was forced to resign, says the BBC's David Willey in Rome.
Bob Kerrey, the former president of the New School who failed in a recent bid to return to the United States Senate, will soon become an executive with a new education venture based in San Francisco.
But after his sensational confession the paper launched a High Court bid to return the money, plus £720,000 in costs, and have now reached a confidential settlement, the newspaper said today.
