The shipwreck would have momentous consequences.

But it was disturbing confirmation of the momentous consequences of what had initially appeared to be a local problem in a particular segment of the housing market.

Others work in the quiet detachment of the laboratory; their names are often unknown to the general public, but their research may have momentous consequences.

The death of the crown prince had momentous consequences for the course of history in the nineteenth century.

But the momentous occasion may well have passed you by.

Tomorrow night will be a momentous occasion, but not a massive surprise to at least half the team.

To take time to say thank you to troops at such a momentous occasion for him will do a lot to give them a boost.

It was a momentous occasion - or ought to have been.

And so this was, in its own way, a momentous occasion: the day that elite sport re-emerged, blinking and disabused of its portentous bombast, into a different and eerie world.