"severely limit" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "The new storm tracking technology will severely limit the potential for surprise hurricanes in the region."
In general, this type of ecologic study has significant limitations that severely limit causal inference.
Stressors including salinity, limited water availability, extreme temperatures and fungal pathogens severely limit crop productivity [ 1].
Targeted financial sanctions will severely limit vital overseas hard-currency earnings.
Protesters say this new criminal procedure code will severely limit justice for victims of domestic abuse.
But ceding the military paradigm altogether would severely limit his ability to fight terrorism.
These guidelines severely limit what a Justice Department lawyer may say.
Such tight parameters can severely limit choice of stock and as a result performance can suffer.
This would severely limit the pace of modernisation, one participant said.
That precept sounds as if it would severely limit our choices.
Therefore, nothing in my testimony would "fundamentally weaken" or "severely limit" the current powers of Congress.
Both would severely limit the company's cash flow, according to the bankers.
