The phrase "almost as severe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare the intensity or seriousness of two situations, indicating that one is nearly as serious as the other.
Example: "The storm was almost as severe as the one we experienced last year, causing significant damage to the area."
Alternatives: "nearly as serious" or "close to as harsh".
Putin's resentment of Clinton was always manifest; it is almost as severe as Trump's.
Studies from the area around Chernobyl have shown that the mental health toll has been almost as severe as any radiation-linked cancers.
The problem is abetted by a pattern of residential segregation in New York City that researchers say has been almost as severe for Puerto Ricans as for blacks, historically the most segregated demographic group in the city.
Fighting in conditions almost as severe as the trenches of the first world war, allied units on exposed slopes were under heavy artillery fire which they were convinced was being directed by spotters in the 1,600ft high monastery.
In a bid to straddle that divide, Mr Miliband whose formal position is to back deficit-reduction plans almost as severe as those of the government is trying to have this debate both ways.
In 1994, with the government cutting public spending to pay for the ERM fiasco, – a shrinking of the state that would become almost as severe and prolonged as the current one – Heywood was asked to lead a "fundamental review" of the ministry's running costs.
Almost certainly, the government's response wouldn't have been nearly as severe.
The Ordovician-Silurian extinction was almost twice as severe as the K T extinction event that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 66 million years ago, which is famous for bringing an end to the dinosaurs.
Recurrent coagulopathy is almost always as severe as the presenting coagulopathy and sometimes worse.
The play unfolds as a kind of cosmic talk show whose sole guest is Ms. Bancroft's no-nonsense Nevelson, the Manhattan artist known almost as well for her severe look (the chinchilla coat, the raccoon eyes, the scalp swathed in scarves) as for the towering wood and metal sculptures that became her trademark.
That's MIT's Richard Lindzen, who has been arguing for years that while global warming is real, it won't be as severe as almost all his colleagues believe.
