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The phrase "a startling number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quantity or statistic that is surprising or unexpected.
Example: "The study revealed a startling number of participants reported experiencing anxiety during the pandemic."
Alternatives: "an alarming amount" or "a shocking figure".
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That's a startling number.
It was a startling number.
A startling number of the victims are schoolchildren.
A startling number are prepared to undergo painful or humiliating hazing rituals to join.
True, a startling number of old Etonians slope, languidly, around today's corridors of power.
A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded.
In the parking lot outside, there were a startling number of new Humvees.
What Memorial's researchers found was a startling number of minor and major errors.
And a startling number of his machines do nothing but wretch and vomit.
A startling number of Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders and South Asian-Americans.
The boxes Candler's workshop clients learn to construct are complex contraptions with a startling number of folds and angles.
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