"devoted great attention" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to someone or something that intensely focuses their energy or effort on something. For example: "The professor devoted great attention to his student's questions during the lecture."
Economists and journalists have devoted great attention to federal taxes.
Qianlong devoted great attention to the beautification of the Yuanmingyuan near Beijing.
Recently, governments around the world, industry groups, consumer advocacy groups and dispute resolution professionals devoted great attention to the development of ODR services and the standards and oversight over these ODR providers.
He devoted great attention to the pathology of tumours, but the importance of his papers on malignant tumours and of his three-volume work on that subject (Die krankhaften Geschwülste, 1863 67) was somewhat marred by his erroneous conception that malignancy results from a conversion (metaplasia) of connective tissue.
As is his way, he devoted great attention to the details of voicing and balancing, a form of micromanagement that can be overbearing but that worked to the music's advantage in the overture and in a brisk, hard-driven account of the Seventh Symphony.
Søndergård devoted greater attention to conducting from age 27.
Our mine managers and miners devote great attention to environmental stewardship.
"Washington" also devotes great attention to the harsh criticism that Washington faced as soon as the luster faded and the governing began.
But the leadership of each chamber will devote great attention this year to protecting its so-called marginal members, who have won close contests in the past or who live in districts without clear partisan identities.
While their reputations are based primarily on their riding programs, most also devote great attention to lodging, food, entertainment, children's programs and other outdoor activities like hiking, rafting, fishing and skeet shooting.
Alejandro Zaera-Polo has stepped down from the deanship of Princeton University's School of Architecture to devote greater attention to his research and other professional activities.
