The phrase "a continued effort" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an ongoing or sustained attempt to achieve something.
Example: "The team has shown a continued effort to improve their performance over the past few months."
Alternatives: "an ongoing effort" or "a sustained effort".
As the conflict continues to shift and expand, a continued effort needs to be made to support those who are displaced and the Iraqi communities helping them.
Administered by the Minnesota State Patrol, the DRE trains law enforcement officials to sniff out all the telltale markers – full-moon pupils, odors, and the like – of various drugs in a continued effort to keep inebriated drivers off the road.
GM announced Tuesday that it would sell its 7.9percentt stake in Japanese truck maker Isuzu to a group of trading houses and a bank in a continued effort to revive its ailing fortunes, though the two will continue their 35-year relationship.
More importantly, they imply a continued effort from clinical pharmacologists and engineers to implement relevant, new research into these systems to ensure that they continue to perform up to expectations and evolve with advances in drug therapy in pediatrics.
WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration weighs how many troops to keep in Afghanistan after 2014, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal cautioned that the United States still needs to keep forces there to help stabilize the country and urged a continued effort to advise the Afghan military that appears to be more extensive than the White House has in mind.
"I think there will be a continued effort to do away with it".
Most important now is that there be a continued effort to build on the improvements".
"The results are very encouraging for a continued effort," Andersen said.
This work represents a continued effort towards developing a sound methodology for process optimal design in metal forming.
The seeds sown then formed much of the substance that flowered into a continued effort to bring this about.
To overcome these challenges, there needs to be a continued effort to optimize the operation of existing LNG plants and implement lessons learned in any new design.
