The phrase "a generation shift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant change in attitudes, values, or behaviors between different age groups or cohorts.
Example: "The company is experiencing a generation shift as younger employees bring new ideas and perspectives to the workplace."
Alternatives: "a generational change" or "a shift in generations".
In other words, there has been a generation shift in the movie industry".
The next person we approached outside a nearby church said it was a generation shift.
But with a generation shift at the top has come a new Special Economic Zone policy: more autonomy for enterprises that once just filled quotas from the centre and more people going abroad to work or run companies.
It had attracted a broad spectrum of support from black labor union activists, white corporate executives, students and workers with promises to improve the economy, race relations and prospects for the young -- a message that appealed to a nation experiencing an economic crisis, a generation shift and an increasing sense of alienation among whites.
Morgan Tsvangirai, 48, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, promised to improve the economy, race relations and the prospects for young people, a message that appealed to a nation experiencing an economic crisis, a generation shift and an increasing sense of alienation among whites.
Thalmic is pitching this as a "once in a generation" shift in human-computer interfaces.
But a once-in-a-generation shift may be commencing.
Last year's referendum was a conduit for a once-in-a-generation shift that had been unfolding for some time.
Evidence of a crime has yet to be made public in this heavily politicised case, which comes ahead of a once-in-a-generation shift of political power this October in which Bo had been expected to be promoted to a core position.
The shift to container-native computing is a once-a-generation shift.
For Mr Salmond it was a jaw-dropping result - perhaps a once-in-a-generation shift in Scottish politics, which had seen Labour as the dominant force for 50 years.
