serious setback

collocation in English

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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setback
noun[C]
uk
/ˈset.bæk/us
/ˈset.bæk/
something that happens that delays or prevents a process ...
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(Definition ofseriousandsetbackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But financial support for public sector agricultural research has suffered aserioussetbacksince the 1980s in both developed and developing countries.
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Undoubtedly, the administration's actions represented aserioussetbackto judicial autonomy.
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The former can easily be seen to be a moreserioussetbackto one's significant interests, especially if it makes functioning well on the job impossible.
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The rationing of petrol and diesel fuel was undoubtedly aserioussetbackfor the motor vehicle industry.
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In wool, there has been aserioussetback, and great fluctuations in the price of the raw material, with buyers consequently holding back.
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Its abolition would involve aserioussetbackin the advance which has been achieved in the last 20 years in the treatment of offenders.
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This was aserioussetbackto the search for peace.
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We have to acknowledge, of course, that the drought caused aserioussetbackon our road to recovery.
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The incidents are aserioussetbackto all that we are trying to achieve.
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I think anybody who really knows about it must agree that that is so, and certainly in 1962 we have had a veryserioussetback.
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Does he realise what aserioussetbacktoday's decision is, both for the industry, and for consumers?
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We have had a veryserioussetbackthere.
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If by any chance it were not to go through, it would be a veryserioussetbackto international investment in general.
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But it is aserioussetback, and must be seen as such.
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The patient preparation by the two institutions has suffered aserioussetback.
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This represents aserioussetbackso the progress which has been made in putting the common agricultural policy on to a more realistic basis.
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I went there, expecting to find that economy having had a veryserioussetback.
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The formation of these arrangements may, in a very short time, prevent what might have been a veryserioussetback.
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After the terrible weather of late autumn and winter we might have expected aserioussetbackin the area sown to corn this year.
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It will be readily appreciated that the loss of a further 3,000 jobs represents aserioussetbackto any hopes of industrial recovery.
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