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The phrase 'shift my attention' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when one wants to change the focus of their thoughts or activity from one thing to another. For example: After feeling overwhelmed with work, I decided to shift my attention to something more relaxing.
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"It was natural for me to shift my attention to the artists who had inspired my work on architecture," she says.
I shift my attention to one young woman as she skis to the gondola entrance and looks up, smiling right at me.
When I'm working on a first draft I may do some additional research in the afternoon, but usually I'll shift my attention to something else altogether.
I found that this ability to instantly shift my attention was often a good thing, like when passing time on public transportation.
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Other problems shifted my attention, too.
Once the domestic systems were reestablished so my son had a stable home, I shifted my attention to my own internal systems: food, exercise, sleep.
David Lengel is liveblogging Tigers/Athletics in game 3 of the ALDS right now, and that's where I'm shifting my attention.
With the Gillmor Gang shut down, I've been shifting my attention to the Realtime Stream CrunchUp Eric Schonfeld and I are hosting July 10 at the Fox Theater in Redwood City.
As a postdoc at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, I continued my studies on dopamine, but shifted my attention to its involvement in the behavioral effects of drugs like cocaine in animals such as rats, mice, and knockout mice.
I obsessively shifted my attention to several news channels, every news channel in fact.
Creatively, I spent a long time as a poet but shifted my attention to novels about five years ago.
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