The phrase "a sharp divide between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a clear and distinct separation or difference between two or more things, often in a social, political, or conceptual context.
Example: "There is a sharp divide between those who support the new policy and those who oppose it."
Alternatives: "a clear distinction between" or "a significant gap between".
For decades there has been a sharp divide between the haves and the have-nots in Washington.
Woodstock is different to where my store is located because there is still a sharp divide between the retail/gallery areas and the residents.
The Backbone Range constitutes a sharp divide between the Sea of Japan and the Inland Sea, broken only by the gorge of the Gōno River in the west.
It is a sharp divide between the passive and the active; between those who are limited to buying from the market place and those who create the goods that supply them.
The two things most likely to get people out of their homes and down to the polling station nowadays are a close race and the belief that there is a sharp divide between the main parties.
In the nineteen-seventies, when I was a film student and Burns started Florentine Films, there was a sharp divide between those who used film as a political medium and those who used it as an artistic medium.
One risk of the current crisis is that it will create a sharper divide between poorer Southern Europe and prosperous Northern Europe, adding to tensions about how to manage the euro-zone economy.
Writers began to experiment with free verse during the Meiji era (1868-1912), and a sharp divide emerged between poets who wrote waka and those who composed in forms outside the tradition.
A sharp divide in Congress between Democrats and Republicans and an entrenched aversion to compromise have made it difficult for President Obama to push through — or on the 2012 campaign trail, even mention — some of the legislation and regulatory steps he favored early in his administration.
We found that there is a sharp divide in fitness values between lineages that either have a very good overall homeostasis response or a response that is lacking in the low resource regime (see fig. 5 A ).
The Teal report, published last month, predicts an increasingly sharp divide between the upper end of the market and the rest.
