"dramatic proportion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is exaggerated or has extreme features, such as "The fires this season have grown to dramatic proportions, causing immense destruction."
It has a pretty dramatic proportion for its size".
Knowledge translation was written into CIHR's mandate, marking a paradigm shift in government thinking of dramatic proportion, and the scholarship was one of CIHR's first initiatives to see the knowledge translation portion of its mandate fulfilled.
"This was a crime of dramatic proportion".
When bad things happen, watch how your mind turns situations into repeating tales of dramatic proportion.
But it is clear that the analysis we have presented already shows a clear increase in tumour risk, and - if it proves even partly founded - the use of MPs could lead to a health crisis of dramatic proportion.
We noticed a dramatic proportion of cells with large and irregularly shaped nuclei starting three days after targeting lamin A/C with shRNA but did not observe similar phenotypes in control cells treated with scrambled shRNA.
It is the stuff of Greek tragedies, and even the characters take on dramatic proportions.
The characterisation, even of the major roles, is thin, and the dramatic proportions are unwieldy.
"This has been a capitulation in two weeks of dramatic proportions of policies that wouldn't have passed in the new Congress".
But on Monday night it distorted the dramatic proportions of Mozart's opera out of all scale – his exquisite watercolour became a larger-than-life poster.
"When it's all going to be said and done, Harry Reid has eaten our lunch," said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who called the hard-charging lame duck "a capitulation in two weeks of dramatic proportions".
