"a rapid shift in" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a sudden and drastic change in something. For example, "The company experienced a rapid shift in customer demand after the introduction of the new product."
QUESTION FROM GUEST: What accounts for what seems like a rapid shift in public opinion about gay rights?
And that's when the tone of the show really took a rapid shift in the direction of the surreal.
Zynga had some successes – Zynga Poker for example – but overall it struggled to adapt to a rapid shift in social gaming from web to mobile.
The absolute number of people who have taken up cycling is very positive, and represents a rapid shift in entrenched travel patterns".
WHY do you think there has been such a rapid shift in public opinion, with a majority of Americans now saying they support same-sex marriage?
The hearings come amid a rapid shift in public opinion on the issue, with 58% of Americans saying they support the right of gays to marry.
Specific cutting-edge and emerging technologies in web design and development are discussed in this chapter to reflect a rapid shift both in computing devices and user demands.
The result was seen not just as a hard-fought victory for gay-rights advocates in Illinois, but also as part of a broader, rapid shift in public opinion on same-sex marriage across the country.
This was shown by incubation of living human granulocytes in hypotonic medium resulting in a rapid shift of chromatin from the peripheral chromatin layer into the IC lacunae.
Depletion of Kap104p resulted in a rapid shift of Nab2p from the nucleus to the cytoplasm without affecting the localization of other nuclear proteins tested.
Our results reveal that the stratigraphic patterns of the slope system in the Yinggehai basin are mainly characterized by progradational slope clinoforms, which result in a rapid shift of shelf edges seaward and southeastward due to a high rate of sediment supply.
