"mundane effort" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe an activity or task that is mundane in nature - that is, not very interesting or exciting. For example: "Despite the mundane effort required to complete the task, she saw it through to the end."
The reason to take these intentions seriously is that since 1974, the Republican Party has stayed with such seemingly mundane efforts as direct-mail fund-raising, campaign training schools and recruiting candidates for state legislatures, treating them as farm teams to provide eventual major leaguers.
The "game over" concept is inflexible, leaving no space for resurgence, much less mundane efforts to strengthen everyday life.
He writes, "The magic bullet scenario effectively transforms and elevates a local, dangerous-but-mundane effort to remove a pathological killer, Saddam Hussein, into a successful democratic crusade that transforms the 'last' anti-modern, anti-democratic capitalist region of the world: the Muslim Middle East.
This isn't the good life through heroic self-analysis but through mundane, self-forgetting effort, and through everyday routines.
The triggers for this week's unrest were relatively mundane: heavy-handed efforts by the police to control protesters incensed over a recently leaked tape recording of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany admitting that he had lied to the public about the economy to win this year's elections.
But more mundane things drive them, too.
Indeed, while many cancellations were made out of respect for victims and the rescue effort, more mundane concerns were also snagging plans, including the difficulty some performers faced obtaining visas because of closed consulates in foreign countries.
Only the butler knew of the comings and goings; his office window overlooking the stairs has been restored, near a desk full of household bills that show how much mundane behind-the-scenes effort went into maintaining Leighton's architectural spectacle.
Their work seemed almost mundane, they say, just an effort to gather and evaluate the best possible evidence.
In Cardiff, there were not only six stirring tries; there was a shimmering display of fly-half excellence from Jonathan Sexton which made Domínguez's efforts seem almost mundane.
