"precious efforts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone's hard work or dedication towards achieving a goal or completing a task. Example: Despite the difficult circumstances, she persevered and put in precious efforts to meet the deadline for the project.
The latest, and most precious, effort to fashion beauty from the barrel of a gun comes by way of the society jeweler James de Givenchy and his collaborators at Fonderie 47, a company in New York that uses mangled steel from weapons seized in African war zones to create jewels and rarefied objects.
While countries are working to mitigate and adapt to its effects, climate change can, as a wicked problem, actually hinder precious adaptation efforts and set them on a regressive trajectory.
If that is the outcome, little will have changed, except that precious time, effort and funds will have been devoted to elections rather than to meeting mounting humanitarian needs and preparing for the referendum and what comes after it.
Dave took his precious time, effort and energy to get off a letter where he no longer has a vote to let the subscribers of the News-Press know how unique Ardy is, and the constructive changes that the incumbent has made within the department in bringing it up to 21st century technology.
They can school you in ceramics, but are otherwise the precious and pretentious efforts of a talented potter who finds the medium deficient.
What a stroke of luck for us at Columbia!...I am profoundly grateful to the Justice for a precious gift - her efforts to ensure that opportunities, like my clerkship, are available to women.
In 1998, the North Castle Architectural Review Board resigned en masse writing in a letter to the Town Board: "We are wasting our precious time and efforts to safeguard the aesthetics and quality of our town's environment.
If anything, besides uncorking the evil genie of inflation and wasting precious resources, these efforts have retarded our recovery.
"Small business owners must not take for granted the effort put into getting others to believe in their vision and spend their precious time and effort on making a dream become a reality.
We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity.
