1.   Supplies of food ran sufficiently low to pose a threat as serious as invasion.

2.   Supplies of food were so low that this posed a threat as serious as invasion.

3.   The absence of competition in the command political economy can result in problems as serious as those from excessive competition.

4.   Other adjustments may be so serious as to amount to jettisoning a carefully worked-out position.

5.   One dead, another serious as lorry hits workmen.

6.   His advance team of medics claims to have found many cases just as serious as Irma Hadzimuratovic, whose plight prompted the whole mercy mission.

7.   Silksworth professional Keith Trotter is off to a good start while Houghton are thankful that they injury to Neil Bainbridge is not as serious as first thought.

8.   That showed a slight cyst on the cartilage, which was nowhere near as serious as first thought.

9.   Already this season, he has dismissed concerns about problems, even one as serious as a concussion.

10.   An FDA letter citing a violation is not as serious as an official warning letter.