It should be in the context of business, not as a separate issue.

She said Iraq and the peace process "are two separate issues, clearly very difficult ones."

The remaining 51 percent named more than 15 separate issues.

On the face of it they may seem like separate issues but they're not.

But the quality of the writing itself is a separate issue.

If colleagues have problems with the Rules, that is a separate issue.

That is a separate issue and must not be confused.

Let me turn to a separate issue, which is the resolution.

We have two separate issues here: the Minutes are one issue and the result of yesterday's vote is another.

"Do you want to take them as separate issues, or all in one piece?"