The phrase "consequences are great" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the serious results of a particular situation or action. For example, "The consequences of cheating are great, and can follow you for a long time."
Slippage is the scourge of basketball players at every level, and the consequences are greatest for the elite.
Some studies indicate that the affective consequences are greater among adolescents compared with adults [7].
The main environmental consequences are greater green house emissions from the intensive urban based livestock production.
Tobacco and excessive alcohol consumption are addictive behaviours, listed among the 10 leading risk factors that cause death and disability in the world, and health consequences are greater if their consumption is combined.
Granted, when misremembering is done by a trusted American news anchor in front of millions of people, the consequences are greater than when Grandpa spreads his hands wider each time he tells you about the big fish he caught back in 1958.
Thus, men are living long enough to fracture, and when they do the consequences are greater than in women, with men having about twice the 1-year fatality rate after hip fracture, compared to women.
In particular, if containment is effective in restricting most escapes to early life stages before density-dependent mortality occurs in the wild, the benefits can be nonlinear (e.g., if sterilization is only 50% effective, potential reductions in fitness consequences are greater than 50% in Fig. 5c).
Lacking the context of a culture that supports shamanistic guidance for the young, the curious, and the foolish, the possibility for dangerous and even fatal consequences is great.
