The phrase "a far less severe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing the severity of two situations, indicating that one is significantly milder than the other.
Example: "The new policy is a far less severe approach to managing employee attendance than the previous one."
Alternatives: "much milder" or "considerably less harsh".
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison but legal experts said she was likely to face a far less severe penalty.
It was a far less severe end to their cases than seemed possible when the six students were initially charged with attempted murder in a 2006 attack on Justin Barker, a white student at Jena High School.
A far less severe form of Islam is practiced there than in more conservative and puritanical Muslim countries, where an event like the Gnawa Festival — with music fans, foreigners and Moroccans alike, dancing and singing in the streets and where women wear whatever they want — would be unheard of, if not illegal.
He was convicted in May 2016 and sentenced to six months in county jail and probation – a punishment far less severe than the minimum prison time of two years prescribed by state law for his felony offenses.
George W. Bush, while a far-less-severe critic of offshoring than his opponent, also felt political pressure to slow its pace.
But what strikes me most is that Dookhan - who engaged in serious and pervasive misconduct with wide and far-reaching costs - received and served a prison sentence far less severe than many of her victims.
Clinically speaking, the cutoff for heat stroke is a core temperature of 104°F (40°C); below that, the technical term is heat exhaustion, a similar, though far less severe condition.
The trouble, prosecutors say, is that the penalties imposed in a civil case are far less severe than those in a criminal one.
During the last recession, the survey number for service employment fell to 42.9, a drop that was far less severe than in the manufacturing area.
When the elder George Bush faced a downturn in 1992 far less severe than Argentina's, the federal deficit rose to nearly 5percentt of gross domestic product; under Ronald Reagan in 1983, deficit spending was more than 5percentt of G.D.P.
But the big difference is that making a mistake in your lawn has far less severe consequences than making a mistake with your finances.
