"a sharp growth" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about an increase in something that happens quickly. For example: "The company experienced a sharp growth in profits this quarter."
A consequence of the veritable explosion in the number and kinds of electronic systems has been a sharp growth in the electrical noise level of the environment.
In regard to inadequate cap italization, traditionally when an industry begins to show a sharp growth in volume, cap ital is attracted from outside sources.
Lord Bassam believes it is an approach which has worked and may avert the coming upturn in the crime rate predicted by home office researchers, based on a sharp growth in the number of young teenage males.
This very urban mix of occupants will be thrown out and replaced by 14 formidable luxury residential towers – a sharp growth of density that actually has the effect of de-urbanising that space.
In the last few years, there has been a sharp growth in such services, which are offered by divisions of larger real-estate agencies and management companies that were originally established to serve condominiums and cooperatives.
The rise in the April index "suggests that the earlier easing measures have started to work and hence should ease concerns of a sharp growth slowdown," Qu Hongbin, China economist at HSBC, said in a note accompanying the release Monday.
Interestingly, OptORF strains exhibit a sharp increase in growth and ethanol yields between 4 and 5 gene deletion strategies.
Any time we see a sharp increase in credit growth we take an interest.
The main technical difficulty of the paper is to establish an asymptotically sharp growth estimate for the kernel of such representation, expressed in terms of its distribution function.
Oil production in Russia, for example, has been falling as the government seizes control of the country's assets, and is flat this year after a decade of sharp growth.
