The phrase "a background of severe" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing conditions or situations that are serious or intense, but it needs additional information to clarify its meaning.
Example: "The study was conducted in a region with a background of severe economic hardship."
Alternatives: "a context of extreme" or "a setting of intense".
The report noted that the regulatory agency, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, had been prompted to examine the airlines amid a "background of severe financial stress being faced by almost all" of the carriers.
Ministers said it was set against a background of "severe financial cuts".
The so-called Roaring Twenties and the decade thereafter in many ways together bear a remarkably identical resemblance to our era: technologically, financially, business-wise and socially for instance, against a background of severe international conflict.
Other risk factors include a background of severe malnutrition and hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy.
Notably, the parasite load was extremely low in the heart, since only a few macrophages were parasitized, requiring careful search to identify them in a background of severe inflammation.
Education minister Leighton Andrews told the NASUWT conference in Swansea on Sunday that the Welsh government was operating against a background of "very severe financial cuts", which included a 40% reduction in cash terms in the capital budget for three years.
In developing a new questionnaire for breakthrough or intense episodic pain (BP-EP) evaluation, both an 11-point NRS and a 6-level VRS were included in the questionnaire with the aim of comparing their performance in evaluating pain exacerbations in terms of reproducibility and of discriminatory capability to distinguish pain exacerbations over a background of less severe pain.
The demyelinating pathology, described above occurred on a background of a very severe inflammatory reaction (Fig. 3).
Third, single body biopsy discloses an increased sensitivity as compared with single antrum biopsy in a background of moderate-to-severe antrum gastritis with atrophy (CLOtest up to 16% and histology up to 12%).
He had a background history of severe systemic sclerosis.
Recently, Footitt et al. [ 13] reported on an 11-year-old girl with a background of learning difficulties and severe dilated cardiomyopathy.
