"It's certainly not something that's of disastrous proportions, but it concerns the farmers involved," he said.

It soon reached disastrous proportions.

He declared that the blackout had grown to "disastrous proportions."

Another department official, Dave Mack, said, "Our experience tells us that this year the stage is set for possibly having fires of disastrous proportions."

It was a situation that could quickly set in motion a snowball effect of disastrous proportions.

By the end of the 1950s, the flow of refugees to the West had reached disastrous proportions for East Germany.

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade next year, as many believe is likely, those problems could reach disastrous proportions.

The result is not only hideous, characterless uniformity in Chinese cities, but also a housing shortage of disastrous proportions.

Throughout history, every 100 to 150 years, an earthquake of disastrous proportions called the Tokai Earthquake has hit Shizuoka.

It was ridiculous to refer to such small things as disasters, but added together, all these small things had taken on disastrous proportions.