Does this represent a grave loss to the public?

It was a grave loss in their circumstances, and for the time irreparable.

The loss of the sun is a grave loss.

In recent times the Regiment's service to our country has caused it to bear grave losses.

In fact, the result had been a grave loss.

Rural America is what the 20th century left behind, and we sense a grave loss.

Eventually, as the Takeda army made no headway, the attack was called off but not until grave losses had been suffered.

These books were the gravest loss of all, since even the priests had never dared to copy them.

His premature death from enteric was a grave loss to the British army.

If, as happened in the two biggest purges, a million people have to be killed in one year, that is also not a grave loss.