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Meanings of epic proportions in English

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Usage of epic proportions in English
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Mr Fox's new position on drugs is a U-turn of epic proportions.
BBC
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The film earned six Oscars and launched a franchise of epic proportions.
News.com.au
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We all would join to lay a modern siege of epic proportions.
Kill bin laden: a delta force commander's account of the hunt fo...
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A good hotel stay will ensure your trip is one of epic proportions.
The South African
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The euphoria surrounding the Northern peace process sometimes reaches epic proportions.
The Irish Times
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A couple of interventions of epic proportions have recently been perpetrated against me.
The Guardian
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The impossible dream has turned into a nightmare of epic proportions.
The Guardian
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The news is a vale of tears as human suffering reaches epic proportions.
The Irish Times
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To call the W700 big is an understatement of epic proportions.
Wired
10
But the story that soon emerged revealed a child protection crisis of epic proportions.
Radio NZ
11
A humanitarian relief operation of epic proportions was under way.
Reuters
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Now, here's a cultural success story of truly epic proportions.
The Guardian
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You and your father are shitbags of quite epic proportions.
Crooked little vein
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On one thing Hektor had been correct: It was a headache of epic proportions.
The unincorporated man
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As all events of such epic proportions, yesterday's tragedy had its own bitter ironies.
The Irish Times
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He turned my way just so I didn't miss his sneer of epic proportions.
Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery)
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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