Assuming similar proportions even a study of 5000 patients would not have shown a significant difference between the two groups.

The mysterious figure of Hilbert began to assume more important proportions.

The horse had come to assume mythic proportions between them.

And immediately he saw that his own small part in this affair was assuming great proportions.

Third, as the world knows too well, corruption has assumed epidemic proportions.

By the following night the scale of the landscape had assumed proportions that were more familiar to him.

AS for the hunt itself, it was assuming remarkable proportions.

Had the Commission listened, the matter would not have assumed such proportions.

This has assumed extraordinary proportions as a political matter, and we just have to get it done.

But they have assumed far greater proportions in a land whose political class has been discredited by scandal.