31.   No other sport for males or females showed such epidemic proportions of eating disorders.

32.   Pat had become the victim of a little-known disease that is nearing epidemic proportions.

33.   Purse-snatching, armed robbery and car theft against both tourists and Mexicans have reached epidemic proportions.

34.   Scientists worry the disease could reach epidemic proportions in coming years.

35.   Skin cancer has reached epidemic proportions, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation.

36.   Some experts are calling this a disease of epidemic proportions.

37.   That trend certainly will continue this year and, in fact, most likely will approach epidemic proportions.

38.   The Japanese craze for English is reaching epidemic proportions.

39.   There had been speculation that Yeltsin had contracted the flu, which is reaching epidemic proportions across Russia.

40.   This fascination with chitchat over performance had already reached epidemic proportions on telecasts of the Olympics.