The phrase "a steep increase of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or rapid rise in a particular quantity or measurement.
Example: "There was a steep increase of sales during the holiday season."
Alternatives: "a sharp rise in" or "a significant surge of".
With increasing oxygen flow the indium crystallites become much smaller accompanied by a steep increase of the In2O3 phase.
This fact leads to a steep increase of the amount of abnormal proteins for phenotypic mutation rates above 5 × 10 4.
Textbooks, along with other educational books and supplies, continued to strain students' wallets, with costs rising 1.8percentt last month, keeping up with a steep increase of 9.2percentt in the preceding 12 months.
Surprisingly, a catalytic reaction run up to 900 °C in the reaction mixture induced a steep increase of the catalytic activity of Pd/Al18B4O33 which became as active as Pd/Al2O3.
In this paper special attention is paid to a well-test response (i.e. a ramp effect) in a particular heterogeneous reservoir, that is manifested as a steep increase of the well-test derivative curve.
Those travelling from Folkestone also face a steep increase of 5.98% to £4,888.
Similar BNP levels predicted a steeper increase of LV mass index and a faster deterioration of LV diastolic function in individuals with type 2 diabetes compared with those without type 2 diabetes.
However, since the newly recorded curve includes a higher number of proteins larger than 0.5 MDa, as well as two viruses, a steeper increase of corrnew was obtained upon extrapolation to higher Mr values.
In the model that also included age as a covariate and a time by age interaction, there was a significant effect of age (F1,22 = 4.843, p = 0.039) and a time by age interaction (a steeper increase of SSQ with time in younger children) (F3,66 = 5.016, p = 0.003), but still significant for time (F3,66 = 10.708, p < 0.001).
Honduras has been in the news in the U.S. this year because of a steep increase in the number of children from the country crossing into America unaccompanied by adults.
A significant difference between reactor types was detected for the phosphorous dissolution at 5 days HT/HRT as a relatively steep increase (of a factor 2 3) in ortho-P content occurred in fed-batch reactors but similar steep increase was only notable after 10 days HT for batch reactors.
