The phrase "a substantial effort to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a significant amount of work or resources dedicated to achieving a particular goal or outcome.
Example: "The team made a substantial effort to improve the project's overall quality and meet the deadline."
Alternatives: "a considerable attempt to" or "a significant endeavor to".
The industry, he said, had made a substantial effort to regulate itself.
"DuPont has made a substantial effort to recast itself and move into the life sciences and away from the commodity chemical business," Mr. Hittle said.
"Damage is significant to both tracks and overheard wires," Mr. Donovan said, adding that it would "take a substantial effort to repair".
Macron said the costs of Brexit were unavoidable and the UK would need to make a "substantial effort" to break the deadlock over the talks.
Researchers have made a substantial effort to identify the characteristics of the BE that affect CIM and thereby to inform city policy to promote CIM.
Such a transformation could pay huge strategic dividends for American foreign policy, but it would also require a substantial effort to rebuild Iraq, including the development of new governing institutions.
Norway has made an substantial effort to implement ICT in health care services, and is now a leading country in the implementation of the Electronic Health Record EHRR) [ 26].
Republican State Sen. Matt Murphy ripped the map and called it a "substantial effort at partisan gerrymandering," according to the Chicago Tribune.
"It may be that GPUs and other new technology may be useful in the longer term, but it's going to require a very substantial effort to rewrite all the [currently library of] code to make effective use of that technology," he says.
"It started gathering dust after a pretty substantial effort to get something done". According to Connelly, he'd sold the rights to Bosch to Paramount in the mid-90s as a way to help make enough money for him to quit his day job as a reporter for the LA Times, but after three scripts that didn't quite capture the complicated detective character, the studio shelved the project.
He reminded the publication that in fact the engine and processor for the iPad and iPhone are made in the U.S., but also commented that in 2013 there will be a much more "substantial" effort to make Macs in the U.S., potentially working with manufacturing partners ("this doesn't mean that Apple will do it ourselves," he said) via a $100 million investment in a U.S.-based production process.
