The phrase "a growing fear that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express an increasing sense of anxiety or concern about a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "There is a growing fear that climate change will lead to more severe weather events in the coming years."
Alternatives: "an increasing concern that" or "a rising apprehension that".
There is a growing fear that whoever wins the leadership contest will face a split party.
Attacks have become so frequent that there is a growing fear that IHL is becoming an outdated concept.
A growing fear that the environment is on the brink of collapse is making many greens less willing to compromise, even with each other.
There is a growing fear that Libya is becoming an incubator of turmoil, with weapons flooding the streets and jihadi militants ready to disrupt civil order.
AS American troops confront Iraq, there is a growing fear that the conflict will become cannon fodder for local partisan politics.
The second was a growing fear that spreading conflict in Afghanistan-Pakistan would eventually suck in the divided state of Kashmir and India itself.
"In Europe, with the tension with Russia, there is a very growing fear that to tackle that you need top-end armored vehicles, and you see the Germans reacting to that with their Leopard 2 tanks by buying back from the industry what they sold a number of years ago and preparing for new tanks and buying new heavy infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers," Wezeman told VICE News.
While the thrill of bringing life into the world was overwhelming in a good way, it was tempered by a real and growing fear that I'd be trading my management track for motherhood.
Oil prices shot up to more than $32 a barrel, amid growing fear that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries might decide not to lift production when ministers meet this week in Vienna.
The genie may be out of the bottle but there is growing fear that a massive crackdown is days away.
By 2010, the cancer had spread to Patrick's lungs and he was buckling under the weight of a debilitating chemotherapy regimen and the growing fear that he might not survive.
