The phrase "a clear deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a noticeable lack or shortfall in a particular area, such as finances, resources, or skills.
Example: "The company's financial report revealed a clear deficit in their budget for the last quarter."
Alternatives: "a significant shortfall" or "an obvious lack".
"This will help to address a clear deficit in support available for young workers.
The party's economic offer by the time of the election was blurred as Labour refused to spell out a clear deficit reduction timetable.
Intricate analysis of the amount of dwelling and its location revealed a clear deficit in spatial working memory induced by scopolamine, but there was no effect on sensorimotor or procedural task demands.
We observed a clear deficit in habituation of N1 complex in patients at baseline respect to controls (Table 2, Figures 1 and 3).
Furthermore, there was a clear deficit in controlling and reporting all relevant loading conditions (e.g., intensity, duration of single loading cycle) [38,39,43,56,71], compromising the comparability of the results between interventions and their interpretations in regard to potential causalities.
The results show a clear deficit in motor performance that can be detected years before the clinical onset of the disease.
Still, the news left a clear impression: deficit reduction may be easy.
The upstream near-laminar flow exceeding 5 ms−1 experiences a clear velocity deficit downstream in the midline of the structure throughout the water column with a cross-stream extent of 45 m at ~100 m downstream of SeaGen (Fig. 3b, c).
Referring to the plans, Tusk also criticised EU member states for "a clear delivery deficit on many fronts", citing failure to find the money for a €3bn (£2.3bn) action plan agreed with Turkey last year in an attempt to keep more refugees in the region.
(5) There is a clear slip deficit area with a radius of ~10 km just west side of the Mw 7.3 event.
On the contrary, MWA showed a clear habituation deficit at intermediate (0.3 and 0.2Hz) frequencies, only revealing a less impaired trigeminal nociceptive excitability during the interictal period.
