The phrase "an effort to explore" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing attempts or initiatives aimed at investigating or understanding a particular subject or area.
Example: "The researchers launched an effort to explore the effects of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a attempt to investigate" or "an initiative to examine".
On our last day we decide to make an effort to explore the surrounding area.
"There was an effort to explore what natural growth would mean, but we weren't able to reach agreement on that".
What's great about living in Queens is if you make an effort to explore different neighborhoods, it's kind of like rediscovering New York.
It's an effort to explore the colorful subculture of magic devotees and the serious, theoretical basis for the tricks they do.
The group has been conducting clandestine cross-border forays into Iran, I was told by a government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon civilian leadership, as "part of an effort to explore alternative means of applying pressure on Iran".
Perry bigged up his own "lifelong sissiness" – utterly separate from his transvestism, a distinction that might elude lesser souls than the wise tattooed heads he was addressing – in an effort to explore just why these guys needed to be so tough.
What they gave Ms. Hay was the chance to expand her own experimental practice, which requires that a performer make an exacting effort to explore different states of consciousness.
This case series provides an initial effort to explore a possible role for quetiapine in the management of refractory hyperactive and mixed ICU delirium.
Actually, the most interesting piece of policy development in the stimulus bill is not an expensive budget allocation, but rather the commissioning of a study - a serious effort to explore in depth how to create a greener national electric grid, one that would usher in the fourth great era of human energy development consumption.
A future effort to explore a detailed analysis of these transcription factors and the identification of target DNA elements remains to be carried out.
It's part of a larger effort to explore new forms of multimedia journalism.
