The phrase "devotes great attention" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to communicate that someone is paying a lot of attention to a particular task or subject. For example: "The professor devotes great attention to ensuring all of his students understand the material."
As the media devotes greater attention to this tragedy, the general public is finally seeing the consequences of the destabilization in the Middle East firsthand.
Economists and journalists have devoted great attention to federal taxes.
Qianlong devoted great attention to the beautification of the Yuanmingyuan near Beijing.
Our mine managers and miners devote great attention to environmental stewardship.
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.
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.
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.
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.
