However the pandemonium reached greater proportions when Pakistan's run-chase commenced.
The tipping point it reaches is quantitative in nature; matters achieve epidemic proportions when replication takes off mathematically.
Officials said Irma was a storm of "epic proportions" when it hit the Dutch side of the island.
The government says flu reaches epidemic proportions when 400 people per 100,000 are suffering from the virus.
The accidental recording reached farcical proportions when Kesh announced that he was opening Geraghty's LinkedIn page on his computer.
Often we discover that we created a problem of mythical proportions when really there's nothing to be worried about.
Officials warned that the flood could reach 2002 proportions, when the river crested at nearly 31 feet.
In our first coaching session, Tara told me her workload had swelled to massive proportions when the company shifted its market strategy and technology.
This cavalcade swelled to truly noble proportions when Teddy Roosevelt (at desk) & Dewey (about to sign a document & looking just like Teddy) appeared.
In only one year in recent memory has influenza reached pandemic proportions, when the strain of H1N1 "swine flu" swept through the US in 2009.
One of Hoyles's research projects showed that nurses make accurate judgments about proportions when administering drugs without necessarily using the procedures taught at school.
