The phrase "a single killing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing homicide, crime statistics, or specific incidents involving one death.
Example: "The investigation focused on a single killing that shocked the small community."
Alternatives: "one murder" or "a solitary death".
However, I told you that they all saw a single killing.
Again, journalistic media have no interest in balancing the story – they prefer to indulge in sensationalistic stories about a single killing on Craigslist.
On Friday, the city announced its first 12-month period in three decades without a single killing of a livery driver.
Then Karadzic insists: "If I told you, Mr Vulliamy, that none of this is true, and that all those who said anything about killings saw a single killing of a person who was mentally disturbed, would you believe me or would you believe them?
It focused on the 46th Precinct in University Heights, the 47th Precinct in Eastchester, the 44th in the South Bronx and the 52nd in Bedford Park, and has "flatlined" the murder rate in the Bronx, where there has not been a single killing since the program began, he said.
Mr. Brennan didn't acknowledge that a single specific killing had been carried out.
An unexpected detail illustrates the new atmosphere: human rights groups have not documented a single political killing during the last year.
The closest real-life parallel to Jessica Fletcher is surely Agatha Christie, who wrote 60 plus murder novels and dozens more short stories, yet solved not a single actual killing.
Interestingly, the team also compiled the figures for bonobos, with strikingly different results: just a single suspected killing from 92 combined years of observation at four different sites.
There had not been a single mass killing associated with a mentally ill person in 15 years, since Howard Unruh had killed 13 in Trenton, New Jersey in 1949.
