unprecedented height

collocation in English

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unprecedented
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈpres.ɪ.den.tɪd/us
/ʌnˈpres.ə.den.t̬ɪd/
never having happened or existed in ...
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height
noun[C or U]
uk
/haɪt/us
/haɪt/
the distance from the top to the bottom of something, or the quality of ...
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Controls were removed, with the result that food prices in this country reached theunprecedentedheightof no less than 291 points above that of 1914.
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In an era of... muckraking, the commission raised the technique to anunprecedentedheight.
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A six-storey commercial building ofunprecedentedheight, it had passenger elevators to make the uppermost floors accessible, the first office building to employ this technology.
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He improved the status of the college and took it tounprecedentedheightduring his tenure.
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The number of homeless deaths reached unprecedented heights.
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Meyerbeer's prestige reached unprecedented heights as he conducted his usual rounds of social and administrative activities.
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The number of asylum seekers on the freight trains that they operate has reached unprecedented heights, and approached 200 in one week last month.
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As a result, the number of people living in poverty throughout the world has reached unprecedented heights.
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The cost of capital items like machinery, also have increased in price, yet the cost of borrowing capital has risen to unprecedented heights.
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In the last few years we have discovered that our exports have reached unprecedented heights.
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Unemployment was rising to unprecedented heights.
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Quite contrary to the forecast that, were we to commit the terrible folly of leaving the mechanism, interest rates would soar to unprecedented heights, we found that interest rates fell.
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Prices of essential commodities rose to unprecedented heights.
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A long period of storm pushed the water to unprecedented heights, still higher than those at the flood disaster of 1953.
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The same games drove the computer games and violence controversy to unprecedented heights.
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The 1930s found years unprecedented heights in enrollment numbers.
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This hyper-commercialization has made hip hop less edgy and authentic than it originally was, but it also has made some artists reach unprecedented heights of success.
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The floodwaters rose to unprecedented heights.
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If completed as planned, the tower will reach unprecedented heights, becoming the tallest building in the world, as well as the first structure to reach the one-kilometre-high mark.
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