The phrase "an effort to approximate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts to reach a certain level of accuracy or closeness to a desired outcome or standard.
Example: "The researchers made an effort to approximate the results of the previous study to validate their findings."
Alternatives: "a attempt to reach" or "an endeavor to match".
In an effort to approximate the Oscars, NY1, the cable television station, offered red-carpet interviews at 7 p.m. as nominees and presenters arrived.
Might the jury's verdict nevertheless be explained, and perhaps even justified, as an effort to approximate the outcome of a settlement negotiated by the parties themselves?
True to the playwright's philosophy, "Peter [ Gill conducted us almost with a baton in his hand and he made me go over and over the lines in an effort to approximate the musical notation.
Then the dish is placed in an incubator, which is set at a certain temperature and infused with just the right amounts of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor, in an effort to approximate the ambient conditions within a living body.
As such, a number of shortcut equations have been developed in an effort to approximate the SIG.
This effort to approximate an " intention to treat" analysis, assuming a 10% non-completer rate, reduced the 1.23 effect size in the restricted, 2 to 14 migraine sample, to 1.00, still a very large effect size.
In terms of color the Soler works were limited, but this was clearly an interpretive choice, Mr. Brown's concession to current notions of 18th-century sonority, which he otherwise made little effort to approximate.
In an effort to more closely approximate endogenous conditions for information storage in the hippocampus, many studies have addressed the relationship between synaptic plasticity and neuronal oscillations during exploratory behaviour.
A third and fourth screen share different angles of Martine, in an effort to slow down and approximate for the viewer an exchange with the dental assistant that lasted but a few seconds.
In an effort to further remove this bias, we approximate the column normalized mutual information distributions as Gaussian distributions (Figure 1C).
All names in the presentation of results are fictional and the reported ages are approximate in an effort to protect the participants' identities.
