The phrase "a steeper increase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a situation where something is rising or growing at a faster rate compared to another reference point.
Example: "The data shows a steeper increase in sales during the holiday season compared to the previous year."
Alternatives: "a sharper rise" or "a more pronounced increase."
Subcontractor usage surged at the fastest rate since the survey began in April 1997, prompting a record drop in subcontractor availability and a steeper increase in rates charged.
That is a steeper increase than for whites or blacks.In some places, such as Arizona, tough penalties for companies that hire illegals have made the situation worse.
Provisional figures from VisitBritain reveal a 21 per cent rise in Greek visitors to the UK – a steeper increase than from any other EU country except Finland.
In his budget address on Friday, Mr. Bloomberg is also expected to recommend that the State Legislature authorize a steeper increase in the city sales tax, now 8.375 percent, than the 0.25 percentage point increase he proposed in January.
The second plastic regime corresponds to a decrease in the average indentation pressure and to a steeper increase in the pile-up.
One-dimensional results of the mean gust shapes show significant differences compared to the classical one-cosine gust model like a steeper increase and decrease as well as a rather constant middle part.
Verbal interference led to a steeper increase in errors on the primary verbal working memory task; whereas, there was a smaller increase in errors across load in both the non-verbal and no-interference conditions.
This pattern is explained by the different behaviour of structural canopy properties, since leaf area index and canopy cover showed a steeper increase with increasing forest patch size in Fagus forests than in Pinus ones.
The noise and annoyance relationships determined for each source revealed very strong dependence on noise levels and the regression lines displayed a steeper increase in comparison with the previous results.
When considering the edge and the interior parts of the woodlot separately we found a steeper increase in species richness with area for the part we considered as the edge, compared with the increase found in the interior part of the forest.
In addition, the photocurrent densities of the BTs and PCTs also show a steeper increase when their applied potentials are over -0.7 V. Thus as for the BTs and PCTs, e--h+ pairs induced by photon absorption are split more readily compared with the TNTAs.
