The phrase "a moderately effective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has a fair level of effectiveness, but not exceptionally high.
Example: "The new marketing strategy proved to be a moderately effective way to increase brand awareness among our target audience."
Alternatives: "somewhat effective" or "fairly effective".
Can Obama, given his political personality and partisan circumstances, be the transformational president he aspired to be or, instead, just a moderately effective manager during difficult times?
In other words, it would take quite a lot of work to turn Ebola into even a moderately effective biological weapon, something that no one has done to date.
For example, if you are hoping to replace one or two chemical applications in a larger spray program with a biocontrol, then a moderately effective biocontrol product (like Bio3) may meet this goal.
Telephone-based counseling was found to be a moderately effective intervention, but there are not enough studies yet to draw conclusions on other research questions, such as how advantageous telephone-based counseling is over traditional forms of dietary counseling.
"Even a moderately effective exhaust hood can reduce a stove user's exposure to pollutants," says Delp, "and using the back burners preferentially over the front burners helps reduce exposure even more". However, their research suggests that design improvements can increase the ability of hoods to capture pollutants and reduce their noisiness without increasing their energy use.
– Xanthan gum is a moderately effective flocculant.
A vaccine to protect children against malaria has been shown moderately effective in a large clinical trial — an achievement that could save millions of lives.
Fusion of VA RNA I to a lamin shRNA was moderately effective in silencing lamin expression, but gave strong OAS1 induction by an shRNA that does not induce OAS1 when expressed from the U6 or H1 promoters.
17 In a recent Cochrane review based on six randomised controlled trials, cilostazol (100 mg twice daily), a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, was moderately effective at improving walking distance in patients with intermittent claudication compared with placebo.
Minocycline has proven to be a very safe and moderately effective disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) in the treatment of RA, but its efficacy appears to vary greatly depending on the patient population in which it is used.
Pharmacological treatment has come to an impasse, with only moderately effective drugs available now and few promising ones on the horizon.
