1.   The poll tax has been a social, political and economic disaster of historic proportions.

2.   We were trapped for three days by a blizzard of historic proportions.

3.   The nationwide protest against the Poll Tax has taken on historic proportions.

4.   An upset of historic proportions almost seemed possible.

5.   Andersen has seen the case transformed from a business problem to a crisis of historic proportions.

6.   As will the fascination with what appears to be a return to form of historic proportions.

7.   Aside from the historic proportion that the Bush election assumes, there is also the great awkwardness it creates.

8.   A normally routine game will have historic proportions.

9.   But even on the Cape and Islands, delays were of historic proportions.

10.   But the Nichols verdict was a major-league head-scratcher, if not a bafflement of historic proportions.