The phrase "alarmingly behind" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone or something is significantly lagging or falling short, often in a concerning or surprising manner.
Example: "The team is alarmingly behind schedule on the project, and we need to address the issues immediately."
Alternatives: "worryingly behind" or "concerningly behind".
Periodic surveys have found the building, with its asbestos, lead paint, outmoded plumbing and electrical systems and lack of sprinklers to be alarmingly behind the times and below minimal safety standards.
The workers express confidence that they can maintain safety and security, but periodic surveys have found the building, with its asbestos, lead paint and outmoded plumbing and electrical systems, to be alarmingly behind the times.
Periodic surveys of the 55-year-old structures on the East River, which were constructed under 1938 building codes, have pronounced them alarmingly behind the times and below minimal safety standards.
If the desired outcome of a business degree is a business professional that can do a little bit of everything, and has the foundational knowledge to work with all corporate job functions, business degree programs are falling alarmingly behind in setting students up for success in regards to working with modern marketing teams.
Can you win when your leader lags so alarmingly far behind the party?
Alarmingly for everybody left behind, the song features a swear word in the opening verse.
A move born from the dancehalls of Jamaica, "daggering" essentially involves a female bending over and the male simulating alarmingly rough intercourse from behind.
Early polls show the cowboy-boot-wearing Mr Allen dispatching Mr Robb, who favours a banker's black wingtips, by eight to ten percentage points.In fact, Mr Allen is currently such a clear favourite that the Republican rank-and-file have been alarmingly difficult to mobilise behind his candidacy.
Alarmingly, some contracts have been granted behind closed doors, without scrutiny or participation by Haitian civil society or parliament.
Whereas France's economy, while slowing, still looks moderately perky, Germany's (along with Italy's, the EU's fourth-biggest, behind Britain's) remains alarmingly flat.
Until the mid-1950s, Americarscars basically had a couch behind the steering wheel with alarmingly low backs that funded whiplash lawyers for decades.
