The phrase "amounts to a severe" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the significance or impact of something, particularly in a negative context.
Example: "The lack of action on climate change amounts to a severe threat to our planet's future."
Alternatives: "constitutes a serious" or "represents a grave".
But the current situation, according to Collins's high court ruling, "does not go as far as [a ban] but … it amounts to a severe restriction on possession or acquisition of books which a prisoner can treat as his or her own".
This may be true, but without adequate staff the requirement amounts to a severe rationing of quality; in all likelihood this has a lot more to do with the Deepwater Horizon disaster than supposed MMS corruption or coziness between staffers and the oil industry.
"What has taken place in Orange County amounts to a severe stain on the integrity of the justice system," Fernandez said.
Many have also argued that the surgery requirements amount to a severe financial barrier due to the cost of such procedures.
This amounts to a pretty severe HR headache.
Discussing "The Discomfort Zone," a "thin and insubstantial" essay collection, as well as the novelist's peevish response to being selected for Oprah's Book Club, Mendelsohn attributes Franzen's habit of "snide superiority" to a case of arrested adolescence so severe it amounts to a "political and aesthetic autism".
Parents were willing to pay the highest amounts to avoid severe disease such as septic arthritis ($1,000) or streptococcal toxic shock syndrome ($3,000).
The intervention by the London mayor, which he had promised last week would amount to a "deafening éclat", marks a severe blow to the remain campaign and will transform the fortunes of the leave campaign.
'Bagheera gave him half a dozen love taps but for a seven-year-old boy [this] amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.' I found it very difficult to like these two characters because of this abuse towards Mowgli and without sympathetic characters to relate to the book was hard to enjoy.
This amounts to severe average erosion of 3.1 km2/yr.
A combined bladder and drinking chart is a commonly used measure of bladder function, but due to a severe amount of missing data we decided to use the 24PWT as the main outcome measure.
