11.   As medicine becomes more technically complex and patients live longer, hospital-acquired complications have reached epidemic proportions.

12.   Advertising in U.S. schools is reaching epidemic proportions.

13.   All indications are that the cheating and mistreating of players has reached epidemic proportions.

14.   Bribery by subcontractors to contractors, and from contractors to government regulators, grew to epidemic proportions during the era of rapid economic growth, construction industry analysts say.

15.   Computer systems were less powerful, less interconnected, less easy to use and, thus, more difficult for vandals to infect in epidemic proportions.

16.   Concussions are being found in epidemic proportions in the NFL.

17.   Foul trouble reached epidemic proportion in Chicago.

18.   Fuel supplies are perilously low, and AIDS has reached epidemic proportions.

19.   Gang violence continues to be of epidemic proportions.

20.   I put off everything until it reaches epidemic proportions.