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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alarming figures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to statistics or data that are concerning or troubling in nature.
Example: "The recent report revealed alarming figures regarding the increase in pollution levels in the city."
Alternatives: "worrying statistics" or "disturbing numbers".
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These are alarming figures for Romney.
Women of childbearing age and pregnant women especially alarming figures show excess malnutrition.
TOKYO — The alarming figures pour forth daily about radiation emanating from Japan's crippled nuclear power plant.
"On the other hand, they've come out with alarming figures before and been proved right".
These are alarming figures, but campaigns to address them have been slow and drug control has received little attention from the mainstream human rights movement.
The alarming figures were released in a study jointly written by the Butterfly Conservation charity and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) in Oxfordshire.
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But the most alarming figure is that the 40,000 teachers now find themselves in insecure positions.
Even Tory commentators welcomed him to the big league, as a considerable, if alarming, figure.
Now the reason I put this slide together is that when you see numbers like 862,000,000 million they sound big, and that is a pretty alarming figure.
In 2013, Unesco reported that Nigeria had the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, with an alarming figure of more than 10.5 million.
To offer a personal admission, it also makes Mr Lamy quite a disruptive, even alarming figure in my private political canon.
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