serious concern
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandconcern
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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concern
noun
uk/kənˈsɜːn/us/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofseriousandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofserious concern
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Although some women experienced uncomfortable skin reactions this did not representseriousconcernfor the majority.
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A moreseriousconcernis the seemingly subjective assertive arguments that simply are not substantiated.
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This is aseriousconcernwith respect to the technology's economic and ecological sustainability.
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The limited capacity of the statutory and voluntary sectors to establish, run and contribute to scores of such partnerships is ofseriousconcern.
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Rapid decline in soil organic matter is a matter ofseriousconcernfor many agro-ecosystems.
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This is most easily accomplished in an environment of willful (not forced) collaboration, peace, andseriousconcernfor the betterment of communities.
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They found strong evidence to suggest that dignity was aseriousconcernof older people.
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The mostseriousconcernis the delay caused by a seriously overburdened and understaffed judicial system.
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The strong tendency for the posterior distribution of to be concentrated at its maximum value whenever the sample is small is aseriousconcern.
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Women described these changes relatively objectively, bearing out previous evidence that, although common, these symptoms are not experienced as aseriousconcern.
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In the last decades of the sixteenth century, the actors of comedy generally handled mimetic representation without anyseriousconcernfor consistency of motivation or mimetic credibility.
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We contend that the marketing of cosmetic surgery raises especiallyseriousconcernfrom the perspective of professional ethics - concern that ought to be addressed in practice.
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No matter how much redistribution was geared up in the tax system, it was believed, there was no cause forseriousconcernabout resource misallocation costs because they were small.
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The clarity and high quality of the book, despite quite a lot of overlap between the chapters, is witness to theseriousconcernof all of its authors.
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Since some machines these days have primary caches as small as 8k bytes, and secondary caches with miss penalties as long as 100 cycles, this is aseriousconcern.
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On balance, if we cannot rule out the possibility that multiunit data may reflect a heterogenous composite of neuronal selectivities, we also cannot find the grounds forseriousconcern.
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Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas are aseriousconcern, especially in young patients with heterotaxy syndrome (isomeric atrial appendages).
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Adverse events are aseriousconcern.
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The scale and nature of juvenile offending is ofseriousconcern.
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