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epic proportions

collocation in English

meanings of epicand proportion


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epic
adjective
uk /ˈep.ɪk/ us /ˈep.ɪk/
in the style of ...
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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 epic proportions


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Various fictional stories have also adopted chronicle as part of their title, to give an impression of epicproportion to their stories.
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That is a constitutional change of epic proportions.
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Restoring their property and civil rights will be a task of epic proportions which must be handled with considerable delicacy.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The result is a growing divide of epic proportions.
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Hansard archive

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Its epic proportions span three continents, involving three intimately linked families.
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However, during the second decade of the 19th century the colonial neglect acquired epic proportions.
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While conventionally viewed as small metal shards moving at super-supersonic and hypersonic speeds, fragmentation can occur in epic proportions and travel for extensive distances.
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The epic tale was picturized on canvas in epic proportions measuring 72 x 453 cm in 9 panels.
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The news interest was global and the whole episode achieved epic proportions.
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Clans can also build an epic monument which makes possible to challenge opponents of epic proportions, which the clan members can only defeat together.
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Songs build and form around revolving guitar or piano figures, the layers piling on until each track reaches epic proportions.
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Some of the disorders have reached epic proportions like sickle cell disorder, heart diseases, alpha-thalassemia, diabetes mellitus.
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What follows is a race of epic proportions.
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His fame has reached epic proportions.
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A dangerous sweat and love fest of epic proportions.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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