Sentence examples for colossal proportion from inspiring English sources

In 1974 and 1975, a colossal proportion of British teenage girls clad themselves in ankle-length tartan trousers and tartan scarves, and screamed at deafening volume at the Bay City Rollers, a band from Scotland who you could safely say weren't pushing back the frontiers of songwriting.

Blankfein bluntly stated that AIG's "failure at risk management was of colossal proportion".

In Ghana, this may be the case given that a colossal proportion of insurance funds (about 60%) are obtained from the 2.5% health insurance levy taxed on certain goods and services.

Its reaction was an error of colossal proportions.

Both of their predecessors had made mistakes of colossal proportions.

Syria and its surrounding countries face a human tragedy of colossal proportions.

Anyhow, the dinner party took on the colossal proportions of a Historical Moment.

The Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin said: "This is a missed opportunity of colossal proportions.

Once handsome, he swelled to colossal proportions: becoming an animated gullet was another aspect of his tragic fall.

Less than two weeks ago a Dutch laboratory working on the film created an error of "colossal proportions".

Opening with a melody that seemed to ride the surface of a huge ocean swell teeming with undercurrents, Jurowski aimed for, and achieved, a performance of colossal proportions.