41.   This year alone there have been enough ACL injuries to high-profile female basketball players that the problem seems to have reached epidemic proportions.

42.   This habit of losing the second of back-to-back games has reached epidemic proportions for the New Jersey Devils.

43.   Throughout the Western world, governmental instability has reached almost epidemic proportions. . . .

44.   Use of the drug has reached epidemic proportions in Hawaii, California and parts of the Midwest, he said.

45.   Workplace violence is reaching epidemic proportions because not enough is being done to prevent it.

46.   Adult rape in South Africa already had reached near epidemic proportions but until recently there had been less awareness of child rape.

47.   Adult rape in South Africa has long reached near epidemic proportions but until recently there has been less awareness of child rape.

48.   Asians who want to come to Canada will likely face tougher medical screening after dire warnings that tuberculosis in their home countries is reaching epidemic proportions.

49.   But French Agriculture Minister Jean Glavany said he fears further outbreaks of the disease, which was confirmed in Britain last month and has reached epidemic proportions there.

50.   But since then, Chechnya has descended into anarchy, kidnapping has reached epidemic proportions and journalists have kept their distance.