After the severe winter, spring was making a brave start.

A severe winter might be too much for the old man.

But one severe winter is enough to knock it out.

Hard training began, which was made more difficult by a very severe winter.

The economic isolation has been made worse by a severe winter.

In a severe winter, the figure can reach 80 per cent.

During a severe winter of 1916/17 the line was blocked for five weeks.

He said that a severe winter had already set in up there.

Many were elderly people living alone who died trying to keep warm in the severe winter.

Many plants that appeared to be dead, lost to the severe winter, still had the potential to come back.