Sentence examples for was a severe problem from inspiring English sources

Beginning in the late 1980s, the shortage of housing in the Czech Republic was a severe problem that was not adequately addressed until the start of the 21st century, when the housing situation, for the most part, stabilized.

Because the formation of carbon was a severe problem even in the presence of the noble gases, oxidative methane conversion was also evaluated in terms of the carbon balance and product distribution.

At the NVI this was a severe problem when D. nodosus diagnostics were first implemented there.

Food waste is a severe problem in China.

"Unemployment is a severe problem," said Zhong Dajun, who runs an economic research center in Beijing.

Rats and cockroaches are a severe problem, largely due to a lack of garbage cans and adequate cleaners.

Mr. Crosson said that while labor shortages were "a severe problem" on the Island, it was not clear "to what extent undocumented aliens help resolve that problem".

"It's almost as though the department and the minister don't acknowledge that mental illness is a severe problem," she said.

Lack of transmission is a severe problem in a number of states that, like Texas, want to develop their wind resources.

"It's a severe problem in North Carolina, and this program turns waste into fertilizer pellets that don't smell," said Thomas Bates, a spokesman for Mr. Price.

Writer visited Hue & Danang in mid-May, talked to local politicians & visited refugee camps, which were a severe problem in Danang.