The phrase "a set of dire" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing a collection of serious or urgent situations, conditions, or warnings.
Example: "The report outlined a set of dire consequences if the project was not completed on time."
Alternatives: "a series of grave" or "a collection of urgent".
Contemporary reality is like an overlapping set of dire science-fictional scenarios.
Brain-scanning experiments show that when a volunteer is faced with a moral dilemma (such as a runaway railway trolley approaching a set of points, with dire consequences whichever way he throws those points) his emotional centres are not involved in the decision.
Time Warner faced its own set of dire circumstances when Mr. Parsons took the helm in summer 2002 amid discord after the failed merger with America Online.
DiRE selects a set of candidate REs from the gene loci based on the inter-species conservation pattern which is available in the form of precomputed alignments of genomic sequence from fish, rodent, human and other vertebrate lineages [ 54].
Comparing the significantly dys-regulated genes (fold ±1.4) versus a random set of 5,000 genes, DiRE showed that Oct-1 was the most strongly over-represented transcription factor that could be governing this altered genetic program (Fig. 4B).
Its consumer-electronics companies recently reported a dire set of annual earnings.
The motor industry has been forced into reverse gear after revealing a dire set of closely-watched numbers on sales of used cars were wildly wrong.
That doesn't mean they will give in again, but it does suggest that a dire set of circumstances has forced their hand before.
The other papers followed the Guardian story, leaving the prime minister facing a dire set of headlines from across the political spectrum on Tuesday morning.
Britain's airport operators will issue a plea for help to the government this week, revealing the extent of the industry's financial woes and issuing a dire set of predictions for the rest of the year.
