My mother's brother was also a great killer of men, as are my three sisters.

There was only the knowledge that a great, invisible, mysterious killer had been loosed on the world.

But hovering in the background is another of Africa's great killers: civil conflict and instability.

What everyone is sure of is that the disease has been a great killer.

A greater killer than any of them, he thought unworthily; they respected her for that.

In the mid-19th century, public health boards were established to fight the great killers of the day - cholera and tuberculosis.

I believe it can be said that there is no greater killer on the grounds of lifestyle than cigarettes.

Priest had been the great killer, the great torturer, back when.

- because of the higher risk of heart attack, far the greater killer.

What was once one of the world's great killers now has eight million new cases a year.