The phrase "size of the disaster" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the extent or magnitude of a disaster. Example: The government is still assessing the size of the disaster caused by the recent hurricane.
So the size of the disaster is at least contained but there's no getting away from it, it's pretty awful".
Any problems stemmed from the huge size of the disaster, they contend, or from homeowners' failure to buy adequate insurance or to read their policies carefully.
Given the size of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we suspect that $20 billion may not be enough to compensate all of the people whose lives and futures have been derailed by the spill.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration failed to act upon or fully inform the public of its own worst-case estimates of the amount of oil gushing from the blown-out BP well, slowing response efforts and keeping the American people in the dark for weeks about the size of the disaster, according to preliminary reports from the presidential commission investigating the accident.
Mark Carey of the US Federal Reserve said he would have toned down a little the size of the disaster we are facing, and that the situation is not as bad as described.
As shown in (13), the maximum throughput that can be achieved is determined by the deadlines of messages, the travel time between the headquarter and the disaster area, and the size of the disaster area.
When we then estimate the number of babies who have been injured by steroids the over whelming size of this disaster becomes apparent; of 360,000 infants born in Canada each year approximately 1% are very low birth weight, with probably half of those weighing less than 1000 g, at least forty % of these infants receive steroids, or 800 infants a year.
The media release distributed with the government agency data focused on dispelling perceived exaggerations of the damage, and on the ability of coral to recover, rather than on the size of the environmental disaster.
Mr. Kerry and other officials, in private, have argued that the size of the humanitarian disaster in Syria and the flow of refugees into Europe have created such an interest.
In litigation the size of the BP disaster, that could mean millions of dollars in additional fees for every lawyer on the committee, which is why so much high-priced legal talent was willing to trek out to Boise for the sake of two-minute sales pitch.
We speculate that our results reflect the significance of the environmental good to the citizens given its local nature and the sheer size of the fire disaster.
