41.   Sounding as severe as a thunderstorm, the vice president warned that the region must prepare for winter rains now or risk ruin later.

42.   The medical challenges were just as severe as the engineering ones.

43.   The most frequent side effects are nausea and vomiting, sometimes so severe as to prevent the post-coital contraceptive from working.

44.   The muscle and bone findings concerned the panel, Winer said, which expressed concern that such adverse effects could become more common or severe as the study continued.

45.   The slanted position of the steering wheel, though not as severe as that in an Odyssey mini-van, reminded me of a school bus.

46.   The tear, according to Bartlestein, is not as severe as, say, the ACL blowouts suffered by Danny Manning or Tim Hardaway.

47.   The tensions between Clinton and Gore never became as severe as those in some past administrations.

48.   There are similar problems in the North, but not as severe as in the South.

49.   They, too, he noted, once faced problems as severe as those he sees today.

50.   Though generally not as severe as first-quarter losses, bond troubles continued in the last three months as interest rates climbed.