The phrase "attempts in both" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors that are made in two different contexts or areas.
Example: "The research showed attempts in both improving efficiency and reducing costs."
Alternatives: "efforts in both" or "endeavors in both".
Athletes get three attempts in both skills.
"It goes further than past attempts in both the rationale and in the desired implementation," he said.
Involved in the UN's reconstruction attempts in both countries, he crossed to the top floor of its secretariat to become Kofi Annan's right-hand man.
Here are some attempts, in both directions, and from personal and analytical perspectives, by New Yorker writers: Susan Orlean on cancelling her wedding in the wake of the attacks, and George Packer on the emergence of "the overwhelming force of unreason".
"Adults should take a deep breath and answer their questions, saying something like, 'I'm sure you'll find someone who will love and appreciate you.' " As for suicide, Dr. Diamond said: "What most commonly precipitates suicide attempts in both heterosexual and homosexual adolescents is being dumped by a romantic partner.
"The best thing would be to just call them the Giants". But try telling that to the partisans in Secaucus who, at Super Bowl time, erected a billboard on Route 3 announcing, "New Jersey Is a Giant State". During the Super Bowl frenzy in January, there were the usual attempts in both states to bask in the Giants' success -- including an abortive plan for a ceremony at New York's City Hall.
He also ranked in the top two in adjusted net yards per attempt in both seasons, which includes sack data.
The Saints will finish either first or second in points, yards, passing yards and passing touchdowns, and are currently third in net yards per attempt and adjusted net yards per attempt (in both cases, behind New England and Green Bay).
GIANTS (32 for 238) Their average yards per pass attempt in both categories, with and without sacks, was at the bottom of the league, yet they won their division.
The same has been previously observed when the production of SPE10 isolated from the Pachyrrhizus erosus peptide was attempted in both E. coli and P. pastoris where heterologous peptide production could only be confirmed when produced in yeast (Song et al. 2005).
Members of the GOP have already attempted, in both Arizona and Mexico, to deny such citizenship in practice through legislation (Arizona) or, through administrative "security" rulings (Texas Health Commission), to deny birth certificates to children of undocumented immigrants on the basis that parentage cannot be proven one way or the other by any acceptable documentation of their parents' status.
