Suppose that in 1492 bubonic plague had wiped out 80 percent of a population.

A ruthless private and federal campaign wiped out 99 percent of them by 1960.

The combined losses have wiped out more than 5 percent of the American market's value.

Competition from introduced species helped wipe out 68 percent of the native fish.

Israeli officials insisted that they had wiped out 40 percent of Hezbollah's short-range missile capability.

A virus that wiped out 15 percent of human race at the beginning of the story.

One proposal that has been mentioned several times calls for the banks to wipe out 30 percent to 40 percent of the debt.

That extinction wiped out 65 percent of insect groups.

Government spray planes wiped out 85 to 90 percent of Hawaii's marijuana, administration officials say.

In three years, they wiped out 80 percent of the country's 980,000 Jews.