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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a quite severe" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct form would be "quite severe" or "a rather severe."
Example: "The storm caused quite severe damage to the coastal areas."
Alternatives: "a fairly severe" or "a rather serious."
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A quite severe façade, as it seems, with a number of entranceways.
That section of the book contains a quite severe, even harsh assessment of what I call the black bourgeoisie.
This decision meant a preventable infection was not prevented - and impacted on people in the ultimate way". Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat MP who has campaigned on the issue, said: "The more documents that come out, the more clear it becomes that people did know there was a quite severe risk - and they needed to tell people who were affected.
O'Farrell said her daughter had been diagnosed when she was just nine months old with "a quite severe medical condition, including severe eczema and allergies that can cause her anaphylactic shock, which means we have to grapple on a daily basis with life saving treatments for her".
Jenny Willott, the Liberal Democrat MP who has campaigned on the issue, said: "The more documents that come out, the more clear it becomes that people did know there was a quite severe risk - and they needed to tell people who were affected.
"It's been very scary as she was in a quite severe state and if you read up on the condition, it gives you lots of mortality cases.
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I was wearing an old, comfy jersey – hardly even a costume – and my hair was pulled back in a pigtail, quite severe.
"It's a 5% cut on top of a period of quite severe cuts that have gone to arts organisations since 2011, so it's the cumulative effect which is the challenging thing," he said.
A dichotomous variable was constructed using a cut-off point of 2.5 (the middle of the scale), thereby separating the lowest twelve percent, a group with quite severe lack of social support, versus the rest.
Though seldom life-threatening, the electric discharge of an Atlantic torpedo is quite severe and may be enough to knock a person unconscious.
"In a moderate or even quite severe downturn, online advertising actually improves, because people switch their advertising budgets out of traditional advertising formats — TV, radio and print — and move more online because it's got higher performance, it's cheaper and it's more measurable," he said.
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