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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rather severe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is quite serious or harsh in nature, often in relation to a situation, condition, or response.
Example: "The storm caused a rather severe disruption to the transportation system, leaving many travelers stranded."
Alternatives: "a quite serious" or "a fairly harsh".
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And closing the bar seemed like a rather severe solution".
Unfortunately it seems that a rather severe cold has hit many folks at Cornell.
I was halfway through my two-year apprenticeship to a rather severe English potter.
The official Croton logo features an Iroquois with an imposing haircut and a rather severe expression.
I was expecting a rather severe lady who was overwhelmingly intelligent.
A rather severe Sheila Rowbotham in the Daily Telegraph believed that "the book is inclined to skim the surface.
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"Every time it looks as though we might be approaching a consensus, rather severe disagreement has a way of breaking out again," Dr. Marsden said.
One of those images is of a particular, rather severe type of clothing — the stuff of those grade-school pageants.
He entered the room to a remarkable lack of astonishment, a lean and rather severe figure, dressed in plain black but for a clerical collar and an unadorned silver pectoral cross.
Not only the fact that a Baltimore nobody could take out one of the Greek's top men, but also Ziggy's personal transformation from an immature object of ridicule to a person of (rather severe) consequence.
PV aging in particular is an unavoidable and rather severe issue of current PV panels [20].
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