21.   If Bertman is right, Tigers fever could reach epidemic proportions.

22.   If nothing else, this is one World Cup tournament whose string of upsets has reached epidemic proportions.

23.   Illegal trafficking in meth, a powerful stimulant popularly called speed, has reached epidemic proportions in the Phoenix metro area.

24.   In North Korea, tuberculosis is at epidemic proportions, striking peasants and the elite alike.

25.   In fact, road traffic accidents are reaching epidemic proportions, especially in developing countries.

26.   It was a nudge-nudge of epidemic proportions.

27.   It now seems to be reaching epidemic proportions.

28.   Meanwhile, he said, the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs by elite athletes has reached epidemic proportions.

29.   More research is needed because the disease is reaching epidemic proportions.

30.   Muggings and break-ins were commonplace, prostitutes worked openly and the drug trade had reached epidemic proportions.