And it gets worse – we are alarmingly close in the rankings to India; a country where discrimination against women is deep-rooted and widely prevalent.
Those closely involved with Great Britain's 1999 Tri-Series squad still twitch nervously when anybody mentions the words Burleigh Bears, a bunch of Queensland part-timers who ran the Lions alarmingly close in a warm-up fixture.
Best of the options is the Langkawi Canopy Adventure, where balancing precariously on an aerial walkway brings you alarmingly close the flora and fauna that sets up home high in the tree tops.
Returns to investors have been alarmingly close to zero in recent years as well.
Environmental groups and others remain concerned about the soundness and the handling of Shell's retrofitted vessels; only on Saturday, the drilling ship Discovery lost its moorings and drifted alarmingly close to shore in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, before it was reanchored.
The threat of civil war has come alarmingly close for the people in the capital in the last week since Albanian rebels reached the outlying suburbs.
Atlético Madrid recorded their first win of the Primera División season but were run alarmingly close by newcomers Eibar in a 2-1 win at the Vicente Calderón.
Certainly as a young group leader myself, my greatest ambition was to be taken seriously by the intimidating intellectuals around the lab, who were very accessible and took an alarmingly close interest in what I was doing.
"Very rarely in our history have such full measures of patriotism, entrepreneurship, invention, innovation, service to country and community, and generosity of spirit been embodied in one individual," gushes the ad, in tones alarmingly close to personality cult territory.
It is, according to some racing officials and track owners, in a state of health alarmingly close to that of the long-since-departed pacer.
They might have found a way to compromise and avert the defeat in 1983 that came so alarmingly close to extinguishing Labour as the official opposition.
