The attack on The Hague was a failure: the heigh loss of transport planes grew to quite dramatic proportions.

The report also found that domestic violence against women is "a problem of dramatic proportions in New York."

Seems the two are entering yet another feud of dramatic proportions, as they both compete to win a potentially career-changing role.

It is the stuff of Greek tragedies, and even the characters take on dramatic proportions.

And yet the atmosphere immediately preceding the crackdown was so free that the change in the direction of greater restrictions seems to be of dramatic proportions.

It has a pretty dramatic proportion for its size.

A few months late, however, glasnost reached dramatic proportions.

The battle in Central Park has mounted to dramatic proportions.

The situation has reached dramatic proportions.

Believers' consciences are coming under attack ever more frequently, and the problem has now reached dramatic proportions.