The phrase "a profound reform" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing significant changes or improvements in a system, policy, or practice.
Example: "The government announced a profound reform aimed at improving the education system."
Alternatives: "a significant reform" or "a major reform."
Spain "certainly made a profound reform of the labor market but it did not pay the same attention to public finances," Mr. Monti told a conference last weekend in Cernobbio.
Earlier this month, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, the Popular Party's parliamentary spokeswoman, said at a press briefing that the next government should impose "a profound reform" of the Bank of Spain, applying stricter "technical criteria" in selecting its top officials.
The Legal Regime of Territorial Management Tools ("RJIGT") approved by Decree-Law No. 80/2015, which undertook a profound reform in what concerns the land classification model, eliminating the operative category of urbanizable land, and being mainly concerned with soil management, planning, and urbanism.
If there were democratic controls of policing so that people decided what the police should do, what policies they should follow, what communities they should be operating in, and what crimes they should try to go after if we had something like that, it would be a profound reform and change in the way things operate.
A profound reform of the medical training program was implemented.
This has led to recent calls for a profound reform in health professionals' education in developing countries (15).
Guided by concepts of individual liberty and equality, a scientific spirit of inquiry, and a pragmatic approach to the nation's problems, they sought a much more profound reform of China's institutions than had resulted from self-strengthening or the republican revolution.
Then in an interview published this spring, Ricardo Alarcón, president of Parliament, said the government was planning a "radical and profound" reform in the coming months.
The intense battling and bickering reflects a process of profound reform in the making.
However, newer evidence and evaluations tend to show that the Egyptian kingdom was unified, but witnessed a vast and profound reform during the second dynasty.
Vladimir Putin listened to the counsel of Sergei Guriev until that counsel, inflected with notes of disapproval and an urge for profound reform, became intolerable.
