The phrase "attempt to close a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to finalize or conclude something, such as a deal, conversation, or process.
Example: "The team made an attempt to close a significant deal before the end of the quarter."
Alternatives: "effort to finalize a" or "try to conclude a".
He said that the tax on the "kiddie arrows" had been added several years ago in a mistaken attempt to close a tax loophole.
Washington did not get rolling again until eight minutes remained in the first period, when forward Alexander Semin hit the right post with a tip-in attempt to close a three-on-two rush.
Wayne Rooney spent about 40 hours in Washington before departing Friday, and over the next week to 10 days, he and D.C. United will attempt to close a multimillion dollar deal to bring the English superstar to MLS.
For the second time in five months, the state's highest court today said the Giuliani administration was overzealous in enforcing a zoning law that restricted sex-related businesses, this time batting down a city attempt to close a topless bar in Chelsea.
In the BHS case, this hands-off approach was doubly amazing since the warning signs were obvious in 2012 when the pension fund trustees signed off an arrangement whereby the company would take 23 years to attempt to close a deficit that then stood at £200m.
Though he has no plans to move the $6.2 billion (sales) company out of Italy, where it enjoys 40% of the market, he says he will take on the unions in his attempt to close a mill and sell a plant in the southern Molise region.
But, although some farmers have been heavily fined for water misuse in recent years, the last on-the-ground attempt to close an illegal Doñana well was in 2007.
A17 Washington State Library Fight In what the American Library Association says may be the first attempt to close an entire county library system by referendum, a group of antitax crusaders is trying to dissolve the libraries of Stevens County, Washington.
The state legislature and the governor are attempting to close a $100 million deficit.
But the proposals, which are projected to save $3.7 million a year, come as the authority steps up its attempts to close a $400 million budget gap.
Then last month, a 90-year-old woman who lives in the building was injured after attempting to close a new bedroom window before going to bed.
