"less attempt" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means an attempt that is not as great or substantial compared to others. Example: Despite her less attempt, she managed to score the highest grade in the class.
In the US, the system is more decentralized, with multiple points of entry and less attempt at central coordination.
Great powers react harshly when distant rivals project military power into their neighborhood, much less attempt to make a country on their border an ally.
Again they found the opposite to be true, with less attempt to rule out biases in the top flight journals, according to their report in the journal Plos Biology.
I'm not going to run through the litany of companies – Hulu, Roku, etc – that have followed in Netflix's footsteps, much less attempt to guess at what kinds of innovations might be in the offing today.
The "cheap-energy mind," as Wendell Berry called it, is the mind that asks, "Why bother?" because it is helpless to imagine — much less attempt — a different sort of life, one less divided, less reliant.
Where two weekends ago Danny Boyle created a patchwork narrative of a multifaceted Britain at peace with its post-colonial heritage, there was less attempt here to string together a coherent story.
Most have never danced in public before, still less attempted precision choreography alongside a professional company.
No one has ever revived a carmaker as spectacularly as he has—much less attempted an encore.
More or Less attempts to settle the age old dispute once and for all.
As journalism scholar James Carey describes them, such "schools of journalism... were less attempts to educate for a profession, than to call one into existence".
However, identification of pheromone compounds is much less attempted in mammals compared with insects (Novotny, Jemiolo, et al. 1999; Wyatt 2003; Brennan and Zufall 2006).
