1.   Candidates put a lot of time and effort into gaining qualifications.

2.   Council also thanked those members of staff who had put considerable effort into running the events.

3.   Disabled people find that they have to put a great deal of effort into making various authorities meet their ordinary everyday needs.

4.   Humans have managed to learn so much because generations of adults put effort into caring for children.

5.   I also found the work to be a lot more precise and everyone put that little bit of extra effort into their work.

6.   Microsoft apparently put little effort into wooing them.

7.   The men who had put such skill and effort into building Hsu Fu were not going to let the raft be destroyed.

8.   The police put considerable effort into finding his car.

9.   The time has come for start-up companies like mine to turn all our efforts into something concrete.

10.   We put our best efforts into doing our best work for it.