Sentence examples for distressing figures from inspiring English sources

The NHS's most senior doctor responsible for young people's health said the distressing figures underlined that greater improvements were needed to boost support for troubled children.

Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy said: "These distressing figures reveal bed occupancy rates are at the very limit of what is safe or indeed desirable for patients.

Gene talk was also used in attempts to dislodge the distressing figure of the schizophrenia-inducing mother.

A distressing number have died".

And on the other hand, the distressing fills his figures.

Dianne Jeffrey, chair of the independent Malnitrution Task Force, said the figures were "deeply distressing" and said many of the admissions should be preventable.

"But there is something particularly distressing about the nice round figure of $100,000 and the fact that it directly lined Mr. Carter's pocket".

Coram Boy Jamila Gavin (Mammoth, £5.99) Really fantastic, page-turning historical novel that tells the often distressing story of the shadowy 18th-century figure, the Coram Man.

The pattern is truly distressing.

Inside these containers, a series of distressing tableaux involving highly realistic, half-life-size fibreglass figures and models was visible via small apertures cut into the metal.

A MoJ spokesman said the department did not recognise the figures but it was "determined to stamp out this distressing practice which causes property owners untold misery and costs them thousands of pounds in eviction, repair and cleanup costs".