The phrase "a much 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 much less severe approach to managing employee attendance than the previous one."
Alternatives: "far less harsh" or "considerably milder".
That was a much less severe effect than the previous estimate of 179,000 jobs lost.
For most clinical applications, the low temporal resolution of reverse pharmacogenetic methods is a much less severe constraint.
Local authorities had previously detained the two organizers on charges of illegally organizing demonstrations, a much less severe crime that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Sidorkina said even if the accused were guilty of starting a fire at the offices of the United Russia political party in Simferopol, as the prosecution alleges, it should be a much less severe charge of arson, not terrorism.
For Mr. Emanuel and other veterans of the Clinton administration, Mr. Obama's tricky navigation between business and populism recalls the forces that buffeted Bill Clinton early in his administration, as the nation emerged from a much less severe recession.
"Even the experience they have had of chickenpox has been with a much less severe form, with fewer complications.
Mondelo said the second penalty awarded to D.C. United (23-7) came on an infraction much less severe than the one against Vega.
In 1971 the United States dealt with a similar but much less severe problem of foreign undervaluation by imposing a temporary 10 percent surcharge on imports, which was removed a few months later after Germany, Japan and other nations raised the dollar value of their currencies.
There was a similar but much less severe bear market in the 1970s.As Internet stocks have lost their attraction and some technology firms have warned of profit declines, caused in part by the impact of the weak euro on their European revenues, there may be a "flight to quality".
Since L1CAM mutations cause syndromic disease, they are unlikely to account for the male predominance in isolated HSCR, unless a new and much less severe variant is found to be associated with HSCR.
As it happened, the Hatfield crash was much less severe than several other recent crashes, including one a year earlier near Paddington Station, London, in which 31 people died.
