It reached epidemic proportions last week, when five of the six games played were decided by a shootout.

In 1528 the disease reached epidemic proportions for the fourth time and with great severity.

Incompetence has, I fear, reached epidemic proportions of late in our local police force.

This problem reached epidemic proportions among blacks, where now more than four out of every 10 families are headed by women.

By the mid-1979 corruption reached epidemic proportions as the economy collapsed.

In some areas, outbreaks have been of almost epidemic proportions, affecting crop production, livestock and human health.

The killings resumed in 1982 and in 1984 they reached epidemic proportions.

The illness is now found in about 35 states, and it reached epidemic proportions on parts of Long Island last summer.

Although sign theft has always been a problem along this highway, thefts reached epidemic proportions when the pending number change was announced.

With the help of the crusaders and other travelers, leprosy reached epidemic proportions by the 13th century.