The phrase "and represents a sharp" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing something that signifies or indicates a clear or distinct change, contrast, or point.
Example: "The recent data shows a significant increase in sales, and represents a sharp contrast to last year's figures."
Alternatives: "and signifies a clear" or "and indicates a distinct".
The change is a major policy rollback by the White House and represents a sharp split with the American-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
That is the same pace of inflation at the wholesale level as in January, and represents a sharp acceleration from most of last year, when inflation was practically nonexistent.
The Times devotes much of the article to explaining that Clinton's "moderate" policy record is a key reason that the GOP feels such nostalgia for him and represents a sharp contrast with the presumably orthodox liberal Obama. 1.
The new defences built will safeguard hundreds of thousands of homes from the financial and emotional trauma of flooding and represent a sharp reversal of earlier funding cuts.
The decline was more pronounced than some analysts had expected and represented a sharp reversal from the robust rise of 9 percent recorded in February.
The unexpected loss reflected a decline in the value of Blackstone's investments and represented a sharp reversal from the $838.5 million profit that the firm earned during the first quarter of 2007.
The ethanol vote came on a proposal sponsored by Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, and represented a sharp turnaround from earlier in the week when the Senate rejected the same proposal from Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma.
These specific design elements align with the concept of knowledge reengineering and represent a sharp departure from top-down approaches in grid initiatives such as CaBIG.
Brain (CNS) metastases affect 10 40% of melanoma patients in clinical studies and represent a sharp decrease in quality of life and survival.
Being moved from one sort of confinement to another, Justice Alito wrote, is unlike "the shock that very often accompanies arrest," where "detention represents a sharp and ominous change, and the shock may give rise to coercive pressures".
For Mr. Weill, who took control of Travelers in 1993 and made it his flagship company, the planned split represents a sharp reversal and a rare admission that one of his many acquisitions had not worked out.
