The term 'greatly sharpened' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that has been made sharper, more intense, or more defined. Example: The focus of the report had been greatly sharpened by the team's intensive research.
This anxiety, greatly sharpened by the attacks on America in 2001, the "war on terror" and all its consequences, has led to many seeing any public expression of Islam as a threat.
But she knew that a fifth defeat to the Dane would not seem like the end of the world, her sense of proportion and perspective having been greatly sharpened by the tragic death last month of her 32-year-old fiancé and former coach, Stéphane Vidal.
That ability to "feel" greatly sharpened the amputees' ability to pull a stem off a cherry without squashing it or put toothpaste on a toothbrush, Tyler and his colleagues report today in Science Translational Medicine.
Such a prospect greatly sharpens the policy dilemmas, both monetary and fiscal, that face both the European Central Bank (ECB) and EU governments.Reform or relapseThis week the ECB declared that it would set monetary policy according to three targets: for the money supply, for inflation, and for a mix of other indicators.
Downshifts can be hesitant, and paddle-actuated shifts can take a beat longer than expected, although the selectable Dynamic mode greatly sharpens the transmission's reflexes – along with throttle response and adaptive damper rates.
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The ITD tuning curves of ICcl neurons did not sharpen greatly with increasing intensity (Figure 11).
The fact that NF refutes the axiom of choice sharpens the consistency problem greatly, and ought to sharpen public interest, but the widely-held view that sets are, of their essence, wellfounded represents a huge rhetorical obstacle to NF attracting the attention that its foundational interest merits.
