The phrase "a big research effort" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the scale or significance of a research project or initiative.
Example: "The university has launched a big research effort to combat climate change and its effects on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a substantial research initiative" or "a major research undertaking."
The road construction sector has made a big research effort in recent decades, mostly aimed at better understanding the behaviour of the asphalt mixes contained in most such pavements.
AT Insignia/ESG, Ms. Dow said, "We started with a big research effort, to find out what was going on with every building of a certain size within a certain radius of where Organon wanted to be -- who owned it, who occupied it, the business scenarios and parameters for the people in the building".
This requirement led to a big research effort in the design of electric wave filters.
Yes, the NSA has a bigger research effort than any other institution, but there's a lot of research being done – by other governments in secret, and in academic and hacker communities in the open.
The idea of membership in a bigger research effort could also be experienced through continued student involvement in the course.
Sadoway is in the shadow of an even bigger research effort into miniature fuel cells, the same technology automakers use for their hydrogen-powered cars.
The discussions in November involved representatives from Tencent, one of China's biggest tech companies with a prominent AI research effort, and from the China Academy of Information, a research institute under the purview of the government's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The biggest U.S. research effort so far is Harvard's new multidisciplinary Solar Geoengineering Research Program, which has raised around $7.5 million.
It is the biggest coordinated research effort in car safety history.
Such a perspective warrants a research effort.
The contribution of this study is a comprehensive report on the current state of research pertaining to big data technologies in manufacturing, including (a) the type of research being undertaken, (b) the areas in manufacturing where big data research is focused, and (c) the outputs from these big data research efforts.
