The phrase "acute shortfall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or severe deficiency in something, often in a financial or resource context.
Example: "The company faced an acute shortfall in funding, which jeopardized its ability to complete the project on time."
Alternatives: "severe deficit" or "critical shortcoming."
Confronted by today's acute shortfall of lending capacity because of the flight of foreign banks, he would simply have created - like Roosevelt - a network of state banks to make good the gap.
Ireland, which abolished tuition fees in the mid-1990s and is now facing an acute shortfall in public funding for education, is paying particularly close attention to developments in Britain.
The acute shortfall and burden imposed by oil importation creates a huge economic constraint for the country [5, 6].
"The acute shortfall in the provision of water and sanitation services in the IDP camps, as well as conditions of overcrowding, provide a perfect breeding ground for this contagious disease, particularly with the onset of seasonal rains," he said.
Inner and middle suburbs have especially acute shortfalls of semi-detached homes such as units, townhouses, terraces and flats in low-rise buildings.
They attribute this to "a general declining interest, an underrepresentation of women, acute shortfalls on the labor market and high economic ambitions" (p. 336).
Increased dependence on "shale-gas" as a source of natural gas may lead to acute shortfalls in the supply of key starting materials for industry that are currently sourced from more traditional feedstocks.
The government says that more treatments are being switched from hospitals to primary care, but this seems unlikely to account for much of the shortfall since there is an acute shortage of GPs.Doctors are being recruited, but not enough of them to meet the objectives the government set in the NHS plan.
An acute energy shortfall causing interminable power outages has bankrupted thousands of small businesses.
Facing an acute labor shortage during West Germany's economic boom that began in the mid-1950s, Turks, among others nationalities, were invited to make up the shortfall.
The shortfall is particularly acute in Internet and Web-related businesses because European countries have not trained enough workers of their own with high-technology skills, a problem they are just beginning to address.
