unprecedented proportions
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunprecedentedandproportion
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unprecedented
adjective
uk/ʌnˈpres.ɪ.den.tɪd/us/ʌnˈpres.ə.den.t̬ɪd/
never having happened or existed in ...
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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 ofunprecedentedandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We also won anunprecedentedproportionof the votes of first-time voters, without which we could not have achieved such an overwhelming victory.
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We are facing a balance of payments crisis ofunprecedentedproportion.
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That counter-insurgency war intensified during the 1980s and reached unprecedented proportions in the 1990s, as guerrilla forces increased their manpower and military capabilities.
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It comes oddly from a party which left office only one year ago and which bequeathed its successors with problems of unprecedented proportions.
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It floated downward so far that we also had a devaluation of unprecedented proportions.
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As we move towards the end of this millennium and into the next, we are witnessing a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.
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It is a shining jewel, achieving global sales of unprecedented proportions that it could only have dreamed about a few years ago.
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I believe that there would be a blood bath of unprecedented proportions and that the troops who would be there would be there for an indefinite period.
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Yet, in spite of all that, we cannot escape the fact that the arts today are in crisis, and it is a crisis of almost unprecedented proportions.
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It is important in the first place because we are witnessing, we are being affected by, and we are involved in an information explosion of unprecedented proportions.
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The opportunity to engage and destroy a formerly elusive enemy that was moving toward a fixed position promised a victory of unprecedented proportions.
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In the last few decades, it has become increasingly clear that humanity is facing a crisis of unprecedented proportions.
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During the sanction years, the agricultural sector witnessed a boom of unprecedented proportions.
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The ritual remained a marginal aspect of kingship until the 17th century, when its appeal grew to unprecedented proportions and when it suddenly became an object of scrutiny in literature.
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After 1929 and through the 1930s, the closing of churches, mass arrests of the clergy and religiously active laity, and persecution of people for attending church reached unprecedented proportions.
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