gigantic proportions
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gigantic
adjective
uk/ˌdʒaɪˈɡæn.tɪk/us/ˌdʒaɪˈɡæn.t̬ɪk/
extremely ...
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proportion
noun
uk/prəˈpɔː.ʃən/us/prəˈpɔːr.ʃən/
the number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to ...
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I do not suggest that business sponsorship is agiganticproportionof the total funding of the arts, but it is growing and it can play a part.
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That is, the role of the state is simply to boost new bankable and commercially viable investment projects, usually of gigantic proportions.
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Whatever it is called, at the depot we had a fire of gigantic proportions, which caused a great deal of fear.
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However, it has now reached such gigantic proportions that the people are becoming restless as they see no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The people who live locally face a nightmare of gigantic proportions.
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Well, the war has now assumed gigantic proportions.
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So this is a new area of risk of gigantic proportions which is barely touched on in the convention.
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These tensions could take on such gigantic proportions that instead of fostering integration the euro could contribute to serious political destabilization.
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It would be a rebate of gigantic proportions, which would help us preserve essential services.
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We are approaching a general election and it is clear that there is a cover-up of gigantic proportions.
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A little news item has assumed gigantic proportions in the minds of many.
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That destruction was a mistake of gigantic proportions: whole communities were decimated.
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Instead, they succeeded in bringing a calamity of gigantic proportions.
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It is an extremely important one covering the whole field, which is of gigantic proportions.
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The picture now is not of an imminent collapse in the secondary banking system, but a crisis of more gigantic proportions—the collapse of the primary banks.
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The cost is of gigantic proportions.
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I maintain, however, that that speech was a red herring of gigantic proportions drawn across the path of this discussion, and it was drawn across that path most successfully.
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These measures increase repression and the mechanisms used to impose it to gigantic proportions and institutionalise the potential to keep records on every inhabitant of the planet.
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As a matter of fact, wherever you look in countries that have tariffs, you will find exactly the same problem that we have and in as gigantic proportions.
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He had the power to psionically absorb mass from objects around him and use it to increase his own size and strength to gigantic proportions.
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