Sentence examples for alarming quantities from inspiring English sources

To a contemporary viewer, this scene imports exoticism and sensuality in mildly alarming quantities.

E. coli, carcinogens, and bacteria causing Legionnaires' disease were also found in alarming quantities.

The fast-growing mountain of waste also contains alarming quantities of toxins, including 4,400 tons of ozone-depleting chemicals and 2.2 megatons of lead glass weighing more than the equivalent of the Empire State Building.

Whatever the outcome of the inquest, which threatens to use up alarming quantities of public money for what is basically an inquiry into a road traffic accident, these intimate glimpses of the princess have turned millions of people into riveted spectators of the final act of her tragedy.

Greek depositors have already begun pulling their euros out of Greek banks in alarming quantities, with about $3.4 billion worth withdrawn this week, the Greek news site ekathimerini.com reported.

"Although corrupt practices are becoming public in this alarming quantity because the state is reforming itself, the impression people have is exactly the opposite, of degeneracy," the president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, said in a newspaper interview.

My friend's taste in recreational drug abuse vastly exceeded my own, and this extra sweetener turned out to be an alarming quantity of cocaine, a substance with which I had one prior and unexpectedly amiable experience, though I had not seen a frangible white nugget of the stuff since.

Recent photos show that salvage logging has been taking place at the El Rosario site, where an alarming quantity of wood has been removed, with all the destructive impacts this process implies.

But more alarming than the quantity of lawbreaking is the cruelty.

As a consequence, the research on quality and quantity of groundwater is in alarming stage.

The proposed alarming strategy is able to achieve a balance between alarming accuracy and alarming sensitivity.