The phrase "alarming scale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or issue that is significant enough to cause concern or fear.
Example: "The recent increase in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure is occurring on an alarming scale."
Alternatives: "worrisome magnitude" or "disturbing extent".
The "alarming" scale of a crisis that means many hospitals are "falling apart" can be disclosed today after an investigation by this newspaper.
Sometimes, as in Uttar Pradesh, the violence is on an alarming scale.
Female journalists are subject to verbal and online abuse at an alarming scale.
While the investigators accused government forces of committing violations on "an alarming scale" in recent months, they also found that both sides had carried out summary executions.
They should be forced to be more honest.But the bigger danger lies in China, where regulatory arbitrage is happening on an alarming scale.
In painstaking and at times horrifying detail, Alexis Jay, the professor whose inquiry investigated the sexual exploitation of children over 16 years in Rotherham, has set out the alarming scale and heartbreaking individual instances of the abuse that began in the early 1990s.
In 2014, a Hewlett-Packard study examined common smart devices, including TVs, webcams, home thermostats, remote power outlets, sprinkler controllers, hubs for controlling multiple devices, door locks, home alarms, scales, and garage door openers.
Director of the Maryland Out of School Time (MOST) Network, Ellie Mitchell, sees access to quality STEM learning opportunities - in and out of school - as the "civil rights issue of our time". The statistics are alarming: despite the large-scale, national push to promote STEM education, women and people of color account for 28%and10%0% of the nation's science and engineering workers respectively.
"We are alarmed at the scale of the commissioning crisis which is engulfing small charities and threatening their very survival".
All four contestants, who spent Tuesday night watching The Marriage of Figaro, admitted they were alarmed by the scale of the challenge ahead.
Watson said: "To those who feel alarmed by the scale of difference between the old world and the new I say this: There is only one Labour".
