'sparked much interest' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that has caused excitement or curiosity. For example: The announcement of a new product sparked much interest among consumers.
I was able to present Gordon Brown's new finance proposals, which sparked much interest and discussion.
The need to study ever-larger systems of equations, combined with the development of large and powerful multiprocessors (supercomputers) that allow many operations to proceed in parallel by assigning them to separate processing elements, has sparked much interest in the design and analysis of parallel computational methods that may be carried out on such parallel machines.
Park manager Peter Hamblin said the appearance of the horses had sparked much interest in the locality – but he was concerned about his flower beds being chewed up and trampled: "They came down from Ely this morning and there has been some damage caused and a potential threat to the public.
Consequently, these findings sparked much interest into the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon of cell plasticity.
'Relevant and lively discussions' The project has already sparked much interest among Nepali youth.
Having failed to spark much interest from record labels either here or in the US, they pressed up a white-label single and took it around record shops.
On one hand, the move is not that surprising, considering that Microsoft has failed to spark much interest in its Lumia-branded smartphones since taking over the business from Nokia, with Android-based devices and Apple's iPhone continuing to dominate sales and usage globally.
Smith broke the mould again in 1997 when he and Jabri were invited as a couple to attend a function at Buckingham Palace, sparking much press interest.
Soon the researchers noted an unusually high incidence of delta infection in southern Italy, a finding that, though puzzling, did not spark much immediate interest among public health officials.
The question of dosage is obviously central to pharmacology and of particular interest in homeopathic pharmacopoeia, where the procedure of serial dilutions followed by shaking has sparked much debate.
The publication of Soykırım Yalanı sparked much public debate.
