historic proportion

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricandproportion

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historic
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪk/us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪk/
important or likely to be important ...
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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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(Definition ofhistoricandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Indeed, these incongruities were sufficiently extensive to obscure even a pandemic ofhistoricproportion.
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If true, it was a tactical mistake ofhistoricproportion, and extraordinary good fortune for the insurgents who lost no time in exploiting it adeptly.
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Again there was no explicit commitment to anhistoricproportion.
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Since its independence, natural disasters have given way to political catastrophes there, and here we are today faced with a tragedy of historic proportions.
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People voted overwhelmingly, in historic proportions, for that proposition.
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This was and remains an achievement of historic proportions that we should not underestimate.
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What a failure of historic proportions that would be.
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The case is unquestionably a scandal of historic proportions.
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The events of 1989 and their aftermath confront us with challenges and opportunities which are truly of historic proportions.
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That would have to be a miscalculation of historic proportions.
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The poll tax has been a social, political and economic disaster of historic proportions.
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We are talking of an epidemic of historic proportions.
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They demonstrate what can be achieved, and the benefit could be of historic proportions.
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And it is a choice of historic proportions.
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Along with that deficit—a deficit of historic proportions—we are experiencing the miserable failure of our export performance.
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I am against blank cheques, but we are faced with an absolutely horrific problem of historic proportions—it is similar to the bubonic plague.
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The truth is that, within our inner cities today, a transformation of historic proportions is under way.
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To turn our backs on it would be a collective mistake of absolutely historic proportions.
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A constitutional anomaly of historic proportions is one thing.
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The loss that the country has suffered during the industrial collapse of the past three years is of historic proportions.
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