The phrase "an attempt at reducing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors aimed at decreasing something, such as costs, risks, or negative impacts.
Example: "The organization made an attempt at reducing its carbon footprint by implementing more sustainable practices."
Alternatives: "an effort to reduce" or "a bid to decrease".
"The president's plan is simply to tax more in order to spend more: avoiding any attempt at reducing the waste and inefficiency that plagues the federal budget," Mr. Sessions said.
Animals are almost exclusively the source of infection for people and therefore any attempts at reducing the human disease burden is dependent on identifying the infected animal source.
In a further attempt at reducing dimensionality, each set of TCPs in a single period is reduced to a single "center of mass" as given by (1).
Subsequently, we demonstrated a successful attempt at reducing heterogeneity by using antihypertensive drug response to partition different pathways of hypertension [81].
As a society, we do a pretty lousy job at managing stress effectively: over-eating, alcohol and drug abuse, excessive spending, hours in front of screens... these are all attempts at reducing stress to feel better.
These include increasing the amount of money Americans can put in tax-preferred retirement accounts, increasing the amount of losses investors can set against taxable income, and perhaps some attempt at reducing the double taxation of dividends.
In the event that post-reduction X-rays identify inadequate reduction, often another attempt at reducing the fracture occurs.
So especially in view of Russell's relatively more successful attempt at reducing mathematics to logic, it was perhaps natural that Carnap would consider both mathematics and logic as analytic.
This is the case when data are being used to show trends in causes of death, which may in turn be used to inform policy-makers for deciding which areas within a national healthcare plan one should invest resources in an attempt at (e.g., reducing maternal deaths).
