disastrous event

collocation in English

meaningsofdisastrousandevent

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disastrous
adjective
uk
/dɪˈzɑː.strəs/us
/dɪˈzæs.trəs/
extremely bad ...
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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofdisastrousandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We are a prime target in thedisastrouseventof war breaking out.
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What is the purpose of opening a committee of inquiry into this unhappy anddisastrousevent?
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If that had happened, it would have truly been a mostdisastrousevent.
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It is just possible that there could be adisastrouseventin the small hours of the morning in a hotel of that kind.
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We may well see a mass exit from our country if thatdisastrouseventshould occur.
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The onus is on all those people who say such things to show, in thatdisastrousevent, in what ways we would or could be better off.
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That does not mean that the child has had therapy and has been cured of the trauma of thedisastrousevent, because it will resurface later.
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Usually, an ecological collapse is precipitated by adisastrouseventoccurring on a short time scale.
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Thisdisastrouseventresulted in a loss of 40 lives and over 500 million dollars of property damage.
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Thisdisastrouseventreduced the number of the legions to 25.
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It often states that if something is or is not done, adisastrouseventwill occur, and that by voting for or against it this can be prevented.
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About 50 -75 % of respondents admitted that they had a decreased sense of taking control of their lives after confronting repeated unexpected disastrous events.
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The frequency and intensity of disastrous events is clearly increasing, and this is worrying.
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We naturally expect these disastrous events to become less and less, and if there is a possibility of removing them altogether so much the better.
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Unfortunately, much more disastrous events intervened, and we were unable to carry it any further.
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Seven years have elapsed and, from time to time, unhappily, we have had recurrences of these disastrous events.
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The first is a direct one, for we believe and hope that it will actually prevent accidents and disastrous events from occurring.
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Ater the declaration of war came a series of disastrous events.
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First of all, there is the impact of these disastrous events of the past week on the domestic and possibly the international economy.
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Any "early warning" systems for these disastrous events will require a more detailed understanding of marine geology of coastal and island arc environments.
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