The learning matters a great deal, and especially the focused effort behind it.

A normal university course might then be completed in three or four weeks of focused effort on a single topic.

So we're having a very focused effort to understand what works out there and what doesn't.

A focused effort has been placed on improving the audio, to hear the players speaking to each other.

It's going to take years of focused effort to alleviate those problems.

However, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s there was a focused effort to widen the network.

The next stage requires more focused efforts, greater skills, higher aspirations and visionary leadership.

There is no way to do that without a focused federal effort.

This is a very focused effort, trying to do things right.

"It's going to take a very focused effort to cut back on consumer products that contain mercury."