The phrase "brief spike" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a short and sharp increase in something. For example, "After the public announcement, stock prices experienced a brief spike."
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Instead he laid the blame on exclusively on the brief spike in unaccompanied children arriving at the border over the summer, inflaming tensions.
In the United States, share prices gained most in the first 30 minutes of the day and then plateaued before a brief spike just before trading closed.
The cooling was interrupted, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, by a fairly brief spike during the Middle Ages, known as the Medieval Warm Period.
The organization found that although the program prompted a brief spike in vehicle sales, the cost per job created was actually much more than other federal stimulus programs.
To determine the long-term consequences of mating on CHC expression, we allowed males a single mating opportunity and subsequently found some indication of a brief spike in CHCβ.
Current ST algorithms may contribute to alarm fatigue because; (1) they are not designed with a delay (minutes), rather alarm to brief spikes (i.e., turning, heart rate changes), and (2) alarm to changes in a single ECG lead, rather than contiguous leads.
That tragedy, and the break-up of the shuttle Columbia in 2003, led to brief spikes in television coverage of the NASA program and its subsequent flights into space, but the program faded from the imaginations of ordinary people — in part because there was little interest in it inside television news offices.
HR was adapted from the Fitzhugh Nagumo model (FHN) to make the oscillations look more neuronal, with brief spikes and a long interspike interval, in contrast to the square-wave oscillations of FHN, which look more like cardiac action potentials.
A spokesman for Public Health England and the Environment Agency said: "Today's monitoring shows brief spikes in levels of particulate matter but, overall, levels are below the point at which they may impact public health".
In the 433 months since trading freely following 1973′s demise of the Bretton Woods exchange-rate system, gold has had a 7.1% average annual return, achieved solely from six relatively brief spikes.
