catastrophic proportions

collocation in English

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catastrophic
adjective
uk
/ˌkæt.əˈstrɒf.ɪk/us
/ˌkæt̬.əˈstrɑː.fɪk/
causing sudden and very great harm ...
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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 ofcatastrophicandproportionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Fires broke out soon after the earthquake at midday, magnifying the disaster to catastrophic proportions and claiming the lives of tens of thousands of people.
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The current level of costs in milk production is beginning to grow to catastrophic proportions.
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We are in danger of entering a period that could lead to a disaster of catastrophic proportions.
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The housing crisis in many of our constituencies is reaching catastrophic proportions.
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What is new is that they are here put together to present a comprehensive picture and to demonstrate the inevitability of an economic crisis of catastrophic proportions sooner or later.
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It is the business of government to protect society from any looming peril, especially when it is liable to be of catastrophic proportions, as the breakdown of marriage now is.
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Europeans' promotion of their own displacement is the ultimate foolishness -- an historical mistake of catastrophic proportions.
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Europeans promotion of their own displacement is the ultimate foolishnessan historical mistake of catastrophic proportions.
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For many people living in this war-torn region, this was another event of catastrophic proportions.
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The not inconsiderable expenditure of foreign exchange to insure food supplies by imports, even when harvests were good, grew to catastrophic proportions with bad harvests.
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This quarrel grew to catastrophic proportions, unleashing magical energy into the world which transformed afflicted humans into espersmagical beings who themselves were used as soldiers in the war.
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