The phrase "alarmingly few" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the number of something is surprisingly low, often implying concern or urgency.
Example: "There are alarmingly few resources available for mental health support in our community."
Alternatives: "worryingly few" or "shockingly few".
There are alarmingly few candidates, but Andreas Haefliger may be one of them.
Many firms selling branded drugs have alarmingly few new products coming down through the development pipeline, and a worrying number of current bestsellers that are about to lose their patented status.
With alarmingly few exceptions, Rio's pizzas tend to be a mess of rubbery cheese and sachets of ketchup in place of tomato sauce, which is what makes Luigi's all the more of a precious find.
When these new Highlanders finished in fourth place -- well behind Boston, which ran away with the pennant -- and drew alarmingly few fans, Johnson decided that some charity was in order.
Despite it being 2015, women in their thirties are deemed too old to play the love interest of a fifty-something man, the gender pay gap is alive and kicking, there are fewer films with a female lead today than in 2002, and there are still alarmingly few female directors.
"We may be seeing the calm before the storm right now," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomic Advisors, noting that a recent survey from the National Federation of Independent Business found that alarmingly few small companies planned to hire in the coming months.
We found that young women in India have alarmingly fewer personal freedoms and work opportunities, former child soldiers in Colombia face incredible social stigma as they try to forge a livelihood, and in Mexico, youth activists regularly face harassment and attacks, by both government institutions and the police.
They were predominantly heavyset and gray-haired; there weren't many women among them, and, despite a few alarmingly tanned union bosses, nearly everyone was white.
Africans account for a mere 1.1percentt of the world's scientific researchers, and, more alarmingly, there are fewer than 5 million students of higher education in sub-Saharan Africa, a region with a population of more than 1 billion.
But big-time Burgundy comes at a cost, one that has risen alarmingly over the past few years.
Murders using guns increased alarmingly during the first few years of Labour's time in office, but have since dropped back down.
