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Discover LudwigThe phrase "downside to having" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about the negative consequences to an action or possession. For example: "There is a downside to having a lot of money - more people may expect you to give them handouts or gifts."
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"There's an enormous downside to having too little".
Other than the ability of causing bloat, I see no downside to having lots of clover.
This is perhaps one downside to having the "flow of the century".
But there is a downside to having all this comic talent on board.
"From a security provider's perspective, there's no downside to having too much," he said.
He explains: "I think there is a downside to having too many [pupils] from one country.
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When Ruby, his youngest sister/ -- wait for it -- became a mega-watt model herself, Aldridge had seen enough of the profession's downside to have his doubts.
There are downsides to having employees use smartphones – direct ones for the employees, and less direct but still troubling ones for workplaces.
One of the only downsides to having a good education – aside from the lifetime of debt and crippling self-doubt – is the hangover of pedantry it can leave us with.
A foreign student struggling with English spelling might disagree, but there are downsides to having the global lingua franca as your mother tongue, especially when it comes to our cultural lives.
But he says there are also downsides to having so many transient employees, and he would like to see a better balance.
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