The phrase "a time of sharp" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing periods of intense change or difficulty, but it needs additional words to clarify its meaning.
Example: "We are currently experiencing a time of sharp economic decline."
Alternatives: "an era of intense" or "a period of significant".
At a time of sharp cutbacks, newspapers are reluctant to take on the costs associated with pursuing such investigations.
The Attica revolt gained national attention at a time of sharp racial and political divides that had been reflected by prison protests across the country.
And at a time of sharp partisan division here, there is always some risk that politics, ideology and economics will combine to create gridlock.
At a time of sharp debate over budgets and health care, Carmona's rocky tenure at Pima County is one of his biggest liabilities; to voters primarily concerned with fiscal discipline, those two years might be enough to disqualify him.
The maneuvers come at a time of sharp anxiety in Mr. McCain's camp, especially over his fund-raising, which is trailing all the major Republican and Democratic presidential candidates.
"The latest period since 2008 has been a time of sharp price swings in the $1,000 to $1,600 per ounce range, but the eight-year switch to central bank purchases appears to have been a factor behind the price recovery since 2015," the report said.
The attacks come at a time of a sharp spike in violence between Turkey's security forces and Kurdish separatist rebels, including the DHKP-C and the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Partyy.
It was a time of spaceships and sharp tailfins and sporting a suit on the plane.
This is important, because we meet at a time of great economic anxiety and sharp political divisions.
Costs were both for resources directly paid for e.g. the time of SHARP project staff, as well as those not directly paid for e.g. inputs by Local Authority staff, on the principle that these incur opportunity costs.
With the presidential primary campaigns effectively under way, the tone of the criticism was unusually sharp for a time of national crisis and mourning.
