increasing severity

collocation in English

meanings of increaseand severity

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increase
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈɪn.kriːs/ us /ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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severity
noun[U]
uk /sɪˈver.ə.ti/ us /səˈver.ə.t̬i/
seriousness:
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Examples of increasing severity

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Over time, the lack of fertiliser impacted with increasingseverity on the yields of plantations already suffering from the effects of fuel shortages.
With professional help, use increases steadily with increasingseverity.
The classification is based on the severity of the displacement of the septal and posteroinferior leaflets, with four grades of increasingseverity.
Furthermore, increasingseverity of dependence is related to increased psychological and psychiatric problems, and treatment for these additional problems improves prognosis.
With increasingseverity, however, abnormalities ofventricular function ensue, and thereby limit exercise capacity.
We view the movement through the trajectory as reflecting growth in deviancy and a general progression toward increasingseverity.
Better educated people also showed greater use of some self-help actions, as well as a difference in pattern of actions taken with increasingseverity.
The systolic murmur becomes softer and shorter with increasingseverity of pulmonary stenosis, since less blood traverses the right ventricular outflow tract.
Victorian courts had done their best to challenge the concept and to punish wifebeaters with increasingseverity.
Thus, there appears to be increasingseverity and earlier onset of the illness that is passed from one generation to the next.
Each item consists of three choices, keyed 0, 1, or 2, with higher scores indicating increasingseverity.
These abnormalities clearly represent a complex of abnormalities of increasingseverity.
Table 2 shows that for all measures there were strong and highly significant tendencies for rates of recall to increase with increasingseverity or chronicity.
It is due to the increasingseverity of the submarine menace.
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The working classes are faced with this problem of rents every day with increasingseverity.
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Unless we change our dock scheme to take regard of that fact we shall face problems of increasing severance and of increasingseverity.
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