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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a major harm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing significant negative impacts or consequences of an action or event.
Example: "The pollution from the factory has caused a major harm to the local ecosystem."
Alternatives: "a significant damage" or "a serious injury".
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A Type Ia supernova within a thousand parsecs (3300 light-years) is thought to be able to affect the Earth, but it must be closer than about 10 parsecs (around thirty light-years) to cause a major harm to the terrestrial biosphere.
"Don't disclose", and disclose when there is a "major harm", "moderate harm", "minor harm", or "near miss" correspond, respectively, to statements 1 to 5 in Table 1(a).
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"I do understand for many people this was a stressful afternoon," he said, "but so far we have been able to avoid any major harm".
"I do understand for many people this was a stressful afternoon," he said, "but so far we've been lucky to avoid any major harm".
The major harm from assignment to a non-active condition in such a trial could occur if failure to quit discourages smokers from trying to quit again.
Iran should investigate claims that the Stuxnet computer virus has caused major harm to its first nuclear power station, a senior official said on Friday, following suggestions that the plant could become a "new Chernobyl".
It would require permits for interstate commerce involving any chimpanzees, or for what the law calls "taking," which could be anything from harassment to major harm to something as simple as obtaining a blood sample.
An important reason to analyse and act on common and often preventable no-harm incidents aside from reducing the number of no harm incidents, is that an incident not leading to an AE in one case might be a sentinel of serious system defects that could result in major harm in the next case, e.g. pulmonary embolism or wound infection due to lack of prophylactic treatment.
Also, compliance of patients with treatment is an important factor in the clinical effectiveness of therapies, and a major factor governing compliance is withdrawal due to side effects (major harm).
No harm done -- or at least no major harm.
Erosion also does major harm to water quality.
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