1.   Truancy has reached plague proportions, In this town around a thousand secondary schoolchildren stay away each day.

2.   The Adonis Complex has reached plague proportions only in recent years.

3.   Government officials say stray kangaroos are in near plague proportions causing accidents, feasting on garden plants and getting in the way of golfers.

4.   The cuddly kangaroos now roaming the Outback in plague proportions once were warriors, according to orthodontical evidence freshly dug from the Australian soil, experts said here Wednesday.