"considerable destruction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you are referring to a large amount of damage that has been caused by something, such as a natural disaster. Example sentence: The hurricane caused considerable destruction along the East Coast.
It also suffered considerable destruction during conflict – the Spanish Civil War.
After causing considerable destruction in the 1940s through 1960s, Atlantic hurricanes largely calmed down in the 1970s and 1980s.
Revolutionary councils were established in the mining districts of Asturias, where there was considerable destruction of property.
…Jiang) in central and eastern China that have occurred periodically and often have caused considerable destruction of property and loss of life.
It was not an unusually big quake, but enough -- especially with many aftershocks -- to cause considerable destruction in communities of poorly constructed houses.
The revolution continued into 1958 with sporadic raids and considerable destruction of property, as the unrest began to seriously disrupt the Cuban economy.
As noted previously, although there was considerable chemical destruction of ozone in 2011 (ref. 9), this was offset by dynamical effects that mitigated the ozone depletion.
Although only inconsequential residential damage occurred at Woopen Creek and Yungaburra, damage at Tully was more serious, with considerable flooding, destruction to six houses, damage to a police station, and a localized blackout.
Considerable porosity destruction may not therefore be obtainable in porous andesitic edifice rocks, although the porosity reduction at C*′ should increase for rocks containing higher initial porosities and at higher pressures (depths) (Baud et al. 2006).
Moreover, the dryer exergy efficiency was only 20.20% due to considerable exergy destructions in the moisture evaporation and the mixing of drying agents.
