The phrase "at a crude level" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a basic or simplistic understanding of a concept or situation without delving into complexities.
Example: "At a crude level, we can say that all living organisms require energy to survive."
Alternatives: "in a basic sense" or "on a fundamental level".
I suppose at a crude level what these churches do can seem like exploitation," says Dr William Ackah, lecturer in community and voluntary sector studies at Birkbeck College.
At a crude level, this is true — there's no question that the majority of Egyptians wanted Morsi out of office, just as most people find the sit-ins and marches to be an annoyance.
The result is similar, at a crude level, to the way that octopus skin works.
Assuming that this development will occur, even at a crude level, it will introduce opportunities and needs for new industries in a number of sectors, ranging from cleantech to transportation, bringing with it changing value systems, new professions, and corporate cultures.
The Fed sets the level of reserves that banks have to keep at their regional Feds, which controls at a crude level their ability to leverage up and make loans.
At a crude level, this tree can be subdivided into two divergent groups, loosely corresponding to strains involved in baking and wine production and those from Europe versus Asian, African, and several wild non-European strains.
Most of the Swedish publications have analysed problems at a rather crude level of diagnostic detail, where the authors have been satisfied with the data validity.
The diets supplied 46 g.kg− 1 crude protein and 21 g.kg− 1 crude lipid at a crude energy level of 22.5 MJ.kg− 1 and were manufactured at BioMar Tech-Centre (Brande, Denmark).
Arguing at this crude level did not come easily to Benjamin.
A high priority must be given to sensing and regulating extracellular fluid volume, even if only at the crude level of having the patient weigh him- or herself daily and adjust ultrafiltration and reabsorption by the bioartificial kidney.
Maternal and paternal alcohol abuse or at-risk drinking was associated with moderately higher levels of attention and conduct problems, both at the crude level and when demography and the other parent's consumption was controlled for.
