Fledgling American cities, they were connected through an emerging international grain trade of unprecedented proportions.

Recut jewels were nothing new, although the present game had reached unprecedented proportions.

This was a record-setting penalty - for a crime of unprecedented proportions.

"This is a dangerous coastal transport project of unprecedented proportions."

New Orleans was a disaster of unprecedented proportions, and mistakes should have been expected.

She called the charges "a small personal matter" that became "an almost fatal circus event of unprecedented proportions."

The proposed budget creates the potential for a health care crisis in New York of unprecedented proportions.

But today - right this very evening - America faces a disaster of hideous and unprecedented proportions.

The first big one is a liquidity crisis of unprecedented proportions.

During the sanction years, the agricultural sector witnessed "a boom of unprecedented proportions".