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immense proportion

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meanings of immenseand proportion


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immense
adjective
uk /ɪˈmens/ us /ɪˈmens/
extremely large in size ...
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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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Examples of immense proportion


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We had to pay for the war with an immenseproportion of our foreign investments.
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There is no road giving immediate access to an immenseproportion of it.
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Directly you begin to probe into these things you will find that an immenseproportion of these cases could have been prevented.
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It will be found that an immenseproportion of it is let on two systems.
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The ratepayers have long been complaining of the immenseproportion of taxation they have to pay for this great national service of education.
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I am sure that he will then find that an immenseproportion of all the railings collected is still lying in dumps.
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I do not think that figure is by any means impressive, because we know that a very few owners own an immenseproportion of royalties.
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Why is this immenseproportion of representation given to these districts?
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In many parts of the country, particularly in my own constituency, there is in certain industries an immenseproportion of unemployed people.
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His health suffered from the fever which carried off an immenseproportion of the soldiers and sailors.
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They presented a revised project of immense proportions.
Understanding how language is acquired is a challenge of immense proportions, one that has provoked intense attention from researchers and theorists for the last fifty years.
It was a tragedy of immense proportions, as has already been pointed out, resulting in over one thousand deaths and many thousands more being injured.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is not only an economic catastrophe, but a human tragedy of immense proportions.
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As events unfolded, we discovered that it was a tragedy of immense proportions.
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Otherwise, in a few years' time we shall be faced with a social trauma of immense proportions.
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Decanting those people from their houses was a task of immense proportions.
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What has been going on is a scandal of immense proportions.
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Aeroplanes are far, far removed from life on the ground in what could become a guerrilla war of immense proportions.
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