The phrase "attempt to decrease the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to reduce something, such as costs, risks, or negative impacts.
Example: "The organization is making an attempt to decrease the environmental impact of its operations."
Alternatives: "effort to reduce the" or "try to lower the".
Coated-wire electrodes were designed in an attempt to decrease the response time of ion-selective electrodes.
A prize of £100 was offered in return for entering an email address, in an attempt to decrease the proportion of users who might leave this field blank.
An alternative strategy of lowering the annealing/extension temperature (LT) at 56 °C was designed to attempt to decrease the heights of stutter peaks.
BHAL should be taught to Junior doctors in an attempt to decrease the number of patients transferred in tertiary referral centers for intractable PPH.
The revision proved less than successful, and in 1990 the City Planning Commission established new building districts in an attempt to decrease the flood of new building in Manhattan.
Implications of these findings were discussed with some applied theoretical recommendations provided in an attempt to decrease the impact of negative word of mouth commentaries and future avoidance behaviours to destinations associated with negative tourist experiences.
Attempts to decrease the number of government workers in the early 1990s met with failure.
Attempts to decrease the maintenance costs of these components have increased interest in shielding them with protective coatings.
-- The Navajo Nation has threatened to sue the Trump administration if it attempts to decrease the size of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, Reuters reported.
Government attempts to decrease the disproportionately high levels of unemployment among disabled people have had little impact, the report notes, while notorious "fit-for-work" tests were riven with flaws.
