The phrase "advance effort" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear in meaning.
It could be used in contexts where one is referring to efforts made in advance of a certain task or event, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "The team put in significant advance effort to ensure the project was completed on time."
Alternatives: "preliminary effort" or "initial effort".
"I will use all the powers of this office to help advance efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this".
This access would reduce the region's energy prices from where they would otherwise be and would advance efforts to improve regional air quality.
City officials said the information should advance efforts to increase the city's reliance on solar power as part of its energy mix, reducing the metropolis's greenhouse gas emissions.
Of the 181 members of the state's coming 83rd Legislature, more than 50 have voted at least once to advance efforts to end tuition deregulation, while fewer than 20 have consistently voted to uphold it.
Mr. Gore also called for a climate summit meeting next July in Mexico City — six months before a meeting already planned there — to advance efforts toward a treaty on climate change, Bloomberg News reported.
From 28 November to 9 December, environment ministers and negotiators from 195 countries will meet in Durban, South Africa, for the UN climate change conference to advance efforts towards a global agreement cutting carbon emissions.
The secretary had explicitly excused himself from decisions affecting Enron, but he was determined to advance efforts to privatize Defense Department services and save taxpayers money, said the spokesman, Lt. Col. Ryan Yantis.
As well as securing billions of pounds of Chinese investment, Britain hopes to advance efforts to turn London into a key trading centre for China's currency, the renminbi, and to boost trade with the world's second largest economy.
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia — President Evo Morales seemed to have secured an easy victory in a recall referendum on Sunday, giving him a fresh mandate to advance efforts to redistribute petroleum royalties and private farmlands among the country's impoverished indigenous majority.
