In Terms of Bollocks 7: The Greatest Yet

Jane Hill on BBC World News reporting today on the findings so far of the Met's internal review into the Tottenham riots:

 

"Unprecedented in terms of anything they had seen before".   

Not clear if these were her own words or those of a BBC news editor or of the Met itself, but either way they are an absolute classic; just about the greatest example of "In terms of" bollocks I have seen yet - which is saying something. Delete all but the first word and you have absolutely no change in meaning and perfect clarity.

Not content with that, a little later reporting on the Turkish earthquake, the BBC told us that "Time is running out in terms of finding people alive" = "time is running out for finding people alive"