serious effort

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousandeffort

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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effort
noun
uk
/ˈef.ət/us
/ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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(Definition ofseriousandeffortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious effort

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This demands a veryseriouseffortfrom the reader, philosopher and archaeologist alike.
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Anyseriouseffortto understand state constitutions, and in particular the intent of their authors, must begin with the journals of the conventions.
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Transaction cost economics does not exhaust the issues but it makes aseriouseffortto nail down those features and develop a predictive theory.
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Neither side, after all, made anyseriouseffortto appeal to them.
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Theseriousefforta person makes toward knowing and controlling his/her inner dimension is viewed as a holy struggle, jihad.
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Each of the eight papers in the volume makes aseriouseffortto confront this question, usually through innovative methodology.
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Aseriousefforthas been invested in establishing connections between a graph's spectral characteristics and its other parameters.
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Several countries have made aseriouseffortto determine the size of the problem.
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Secondly, there has been someseriouseffortin introducing transparency and equity into the system by linking benefits to contributions.
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It will take a long time andseriouseffortto explore these implications, but it will be interesting to mention at least some of them here.
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Andrews et al. acknowledge that the definition of a trait is not straightforward, but they make noseriouseffortto grapple with the difficulty.
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The editors have succeeded in getting some good chapters into the book, but they seem to have put noseriouseffortinto making the book a coherent whole.
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Their paper is aseriouseffortto explore the implications of a small set of ideas, rather than to prepare a synoptic view of the evolution of human mating.
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It is understandable that firms face stringent environmental requirements in regions where the regulations are strict and the government authorities putseriouseffortinto implementing these regulations.
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For that reason we must make aseriouseffortto introduce inter alia much-needed institutional reforms.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Seriouseffortshould ensure speedier processing, and enable practical difficulties to be resolved more effectively.
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We believe priority should be given to a strong andseriouseffortin terms of interinstitutional cooperation.
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I think that the time has come when we ought to make aseriouseffortto alter it.
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That is why, unlike our predecessors, we shall make aseriouseffortto find an answer.
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A much moreseriouseffortshould be made to bring these houses into a reasonable state to meet modern requirements.
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