Even the slaughter of a thousand persons begins with but a single death.

A hundred billion, dying, would not begin to have the same importance as a single human death.

But they made it through with only a single death.

An the data suggest that you have to plant dozens of them to cause a single death.

But a single death at Lockerbie is a crime beyond measure.

There had, indeed, been one year without a single death.

Even a single death is no minor threat to such a small population.

He fully felt the sorrows of the war, every single death.

A single death would not have brought you here.

Today's action may not have produced even a single death or serious injury, the commanders say.