The phrase "a far larger problem" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing an issue that is significantly more extensive or serious than another problem being referenced.
Example: "While the budget cuts are concerning, they are just a symptom of a far larger problem within the organization."
Alternatives: "a much bigger issue" or "a significantly greater challenge".
Spain is a far larger problem than Greece, and it could drag down Italy and perhaps even France.
Spain is a far larger problem than Greece, Ireland or Portugal, and it could drag down Italy and perhaps even France.
But there is a far larger problem with what sociologists and psychologists refer to as "micro-aggressions," subtle but crippling insults, indignities and demeaning behavior.
Why should Muslim leaders be complicit in reducing a far larger problem to one defined by one or two outlying senators?
The officials say that Syria presents a far larger problem than did Libya, which required a seven-month NATO air campaign last year in which hundreds of aircraft dropped and fired 7,700 bombs and missiles.
Indeed, with 175 million people, most of them impoverished and illiterate, and a large store of nuclear weapons, Pakistan is potentially a far larger problem for the United States than Afghanistan.
He is just part of the far larger problem that college basketball and football games have become a multibillion-dollar television entertainment industry tightly managed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, too often to the detriment of the young athletes.
There is reason to be suspicious: the gold shipments track with the far larger problem of cash smuggling.
But he cravenly insisted the hearing must not address the far larger problem of repairing the nation's shoddy gun controls.
And while the patients' rights bill addresses the need to stop health plans from saying no when they should be saying yes, it ignores the far larger problem of costs, which arises when managed care cannot, ever, say no.
Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist leader who is Egypt's first democratically elected president, has inherited far larger problems: an economy devastated by unrest, a broken system of food and fuel subsidies and plunging foreign currency reserves.
