"expressed appreciation of" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to communicate or show gratitude or admiration for something or someone. Example: During the award ceremony, the CEO expressed her appreciation of the hard work and dedication of her employees.
In the statement he asked for forgiveness and expressed "appreciation" of media attention, saying it helped the church deal with its problems.
Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed appreciation of Putin during the US election campaign, calling him a better leader than Obama and citing his 82% approval rating as a sign of his success.
In a joint statement issued yesterday in Washington, the two ranking members of the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed appreciation of Novation's pledge but said they would monitor it closely.
I've tracked the story through old ledgers of council minutes and given talks to local history societies where former pupils of the Konstam nursery expressed appreciation of my great-grandparents' generosity, but the most moving point of the two-year odyssey was when my nephew and a friend did a reading of Jack and Norman's letters in a local theatre.
One resident expressed appreciation of teachers who stimulated curiosity and interest.
Regarding content some therapists expressed appreciation of the conciseness, while others felt the extent of the instrument is too limited.
I thought of an old friend and Francophile who insists that friends in France often order the same thing to express appreciation of each other.
Pacific languages seem to be deficient in terms to express appreciation of or reactions to art, apart from a few that designate the mastery of individual specialists.
There is a better day to honour the troops This Saturday is Armed Forces Day and we should use it, says the Prime Minister, fresh from his Afghanistan trip, to express appreciation of our military "more loudly and more proudly".
All were instances of intra-employee generosity designed to express appreciation of fellow employees on occasions such as birthdays or departures.
Michaelides sent his 506 euro ($555) pension to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, along with a letter expressing "appreciation of your tireless but also heroic efforts to preserve and secure the honor and dignity of the Greek people," Agence France Presse reported.
