As it happened, the Hatfield crash was much less severe than several other recent crashes, including one a year earlier near Paddington Station, London, in which 31 people died.
Had the fiscal and borrowing conditions been observed, the current crisis would almost certainly have been much less severe.
South Korea has also had to grapple with falling exports, though the pace of decline there has been much less severe than in Japan.
Mr. D'Alamberte permitted Mr. Warrick to rejoin the football team before doing the community service, reasoning that the punishment was much less severe than jail time.
In the case of the 40-year-old Mr. Moore, the first registry violation occurred in 2005, when the penalties were much less severe.
After the death of al-Jazzār (1804), the financial demands were much less severe, and Bashīr was able to consolidate his position.
Last year, the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was roundly criticized for not preparing the city adequately for a snowfall that that was much less severe than this year's.
And last night I was genuinely astonished at the news leaked from the Treasury: that cuts to the scientific research budget were to be much less severe than initially indicated.
"Having one engine fail during takeoff when you're using 14 is much less severe than having one fail when you only have three," says Sean Clarke, one of Maxwell's designers.
