The phrase "an amount of effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or degree of effort required or expended in a task or activity.
Example: "Completing this project will require an amount of effort that we need to plan for in advance."
Alternatives: "a level of effort" or "a degree of effort".
There is an amount of effort that goes into picking just the right words when handwriting them on a blank page that doesn't quite translate into speaking over the phone or dashing off a quick tweet or Facebook message.
That option, of blunt refusal, doesn't even consciously occur to her — she assumes that if she wants to say no she has to do so in a conciliatory, gentle, tactful way, in a way that would take "an amount of effort that was impossible to summon".
Suppose that an agent exerts an amount of effort, e, to perform a morally desirable action whose degree of moral desirability is m.
While for most, daily tooth brushing was still important enough to do, seeing a dentist was not (qB14) or required an amount of effort that could be better spent in other ways (qB17), a view that was even shared by some slightly frail people.
Sorensen asks us to imagine a third agent, Lori, who performs the same kind of donation for the same reasons, but who exerts an amount of effort intermediate between that exerted by Janette and Nigel: "Lori feels a variety of self-interested desires to keep the money or spend it on something for herself.
Trying to remember who you are "IRL" requires an an extra amount of effort and introspection whilst wearing the Oculus.
Being a polyglot takes an incredible amount of effort.
If you have to put an exhausting amount of effort into a friendship it really isn't worth it.
As a result, a great amount of effort is being invested in developing efficient multi-image alignment algorithms.
