"original attempt" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe one's first effort to achieve something. For example, you could say: "I made an original attempt to complete the project on time, but unfortunately I didn't succeed."
The first original attempt at standardizing American handwriting appeared in 1791 in The Art of Writing by John Jenkins.
He might have agreed with Fanny that his original attempt had "missed the allegory", but he did not wish to have the allegory rigidly defined.
By the time of Spin's original attempt to foist an electronic dance revolution on a reluctant American public, seven years later, the magazine's decline was well underway.
Prof Hilary Rose, Prof Steven Rose London The University of Southampton's conference presented itself as an original attempt at opening up a debate on the legitimacy of the creation of the state of Israel.
Though Zoroastrianism was never, even in the thinking of its founder, as aggressively monotheistic as, for instance, Judaism or Islam, it does represent an original attempt at unifying under the worship of one supreme god a polytheistic religion comparable to those of the ancient Greeks, Latins, Indians, and other early peoples.
The shot across goal was hardly a piledriver, yet Bailey allowed Brady's effort to squeeze under his body and dribble apologetically over the line, somehow being beaten at his near post when the original attempt had been heading towards the far post.
In most of the languages with a long history of writing, the original attempts by scribes at phonological transcription were followed by an "etymological" period in which Latinized spelling gained ground.
The timeless moment is again caught with great skill in his sonnet "A Venetian Pastoral by Giorgione in the Louvre"—the most successful of his highly original attempts to translate well-known paintings into verse.
You could easily imagine the original attempts at making this something more than a suburb being erased in a decade or two, as it is turned into a commuter district like any other.
One of the clones (Mackenzie Gray), aged approximately twenty years older than the original, attempted to get revenge on Clark by trying to kill Lois Lane (Erica Durance) but died before he could finish.
Finally, the clearest principal component analysis was obtained using the expanded training sets with improved patterns compared to original attempts using 48-sample sets.
