The phrase "a severe set" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly intense or challenging situation, condition, or collection of items.
Example: "The athlete faced a severe set of challenges during her training, including injuries and personal setbacks."
Alternatives: "a difficult situation" or "a tough set".
A HISTORIAN looking back at tomorrow's budget, due to be revealed by George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, may well write:Faced with an economic crisis and a large budget deficit, the British government was forced to raise taxes and implement a severe set of public spending cuts.
I was basically just reading the script for that scene and trying to find a cool way to do that in what are a severe set of limitations that get imposed when you doing something that's so specifically for a certain project, but I love the way that one turned out.
Newport Gwent Dragons suffered a severe set-back to their qualification hopes after losing their second successive Amlin Challenge Cup game.
Emphasis is on mobile software agents, since they typically face a more severe set of threats than do static agents and, therefore, demand more rigorous countermeasures.
As Edward L. Glaeser, a Harvard economist who studies segregation, puts it, blacks, more than any group except perhaps Native Americans, have been subjected to an unusually severe set of external segregating forces -- from violence to restrictive covenants to racial steering by real estate agents.
But when a severe infection set in and his kidneys failed, hope ran out.
Napoleon, aware that he faced a severe challenge, set out to strengthen his armed forces; he proposed a tighter conscription law that would increase the size of the standing army but had to retreat in the face of public and parliamentary hostility.
They've signed an agreement with us saying it's a done deal, we accept it, and they imposed the most severe set of penalties in the history of athletics.
Then the announcement of the longest and most severe set of strikes the NHS has experienced are announced.
Between 2006 and 2011, the country suffered the worst long-term drought and the most severe set of crop failures in recorded history.
Acquired by the consignor in 2001 from the artist, who died that same year, the uncompromisingly severe set brought $4.89 million.
