The phrase "alarmingly high rate of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing statistics or trends that are concerning or surprising in their magnitude.
Example: "The report highlighted the alarmingly high rate of unemployment in the region, prompting immediate action from local authorities."
Alternatives: "worryingly elevated level of" or "concerningly high frequency of".
A defense attorney in private practice and a former assistant district attorney, he offers solid experience, along with fresh ideas for bolstering an office lately beset by an alarmingly high rate of staff turnover.
"We don't screen on admission," says James. "That is the critical thing". He says screening would show up an alarmingly high rate of bacterial infection and would have serious financial consequences.
The alarmingly high rate of illness-related absenteeism among nurses and recent reports of workplace violence and burnout are problematic for both the current workforce shortage and the recruitment and retention of new nurses.
"What's he going to do after this?" Rubio asked his audience as one of his campers demonstrated the proper technique for hiking a football between his legs at an alarmingly high rate of speed.
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called in after the 1998 calamity to study the alarmingly high rate of fetal deaths, issued a report this year that confirmed the fears of the tribe, one of the smallest, with 204 members, and poorest in the West.
Take, for instance, the district of Assemblyman Isadore Hall, the bill's sponsor: he represents Compton, a Southern Californian district with an alarmingly high rate of HIV infection – where the Aids Healthcare Foundation, which supports Hall's legislation, does not even have a clinic.
Homeless children are known to suffer alarmingly high rates of asthma, possibly because of stressful lives and unhealthy living conditions.
The Sambhavna clinic, a charity campaigning in Bhopal, has conducted a survey of 20,000 people and says it has found alarmingly high rates of birth defects.
Last month, we received a staggering response from readers to a Careers item about the alarmingly high rates of mental-health concerns reported by postgraduates.
It has warned of alarmingly high rates of poor mental health among LGBT students: four in five young trans people have self-harmed, according to the charity, while 45% have attempted suicide.
