Sentence examples for distressingly few from inspiring English sources

The fact was, they had distressingly few choices.

There are distressingly few women willing to donate their eggs for experiments at the frontiers of this promising science.

There remain distressingly few women among Silicon Valley engineers, start-up entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and computer science and engineering majors, for reasons including the technology industry's girl-repelling image problem, the tiny number of powerful women role models and the insular Silicon Valley deal-making boys' club.

I found distressingly few bugs to complain about.

Claire Cain Miller for the New York Times wrote on July 18 , 2012that in the technology startup ecosystem, "There remain distressingly few women... for reasons including the tech industry's girl-repelling image problem, the tiny number of powerful women role models and the insular Silicon Valley deal-making boys' club".

There have been, distressingly, a few cases of political assassination, but strong reactions from civil society and politicians alike have ensured that politics has not descended into open armed conflict.

The number of highway deaths has risen distressingly in the last few years, to about forty thousand in the U.S. and well over a million worldwide — and as many as ninety-six per cent of these fatalities are the result of driver mistakes.

The number of highway deaths has risen distressingly in the last few years, to about forty thousand in the U.S. and well over a million worldwide and as many as ninety-six per cent of these fatalities are the result of driver mistakes.

Anyway, hadn't Ms. Peters seemed distressingly uncomfortable only a few years earlier in another part created by Merman, the title role in "Annie Get Your Gun"? Stories began circulating on the Web and in the tabloids that Mr. Laurents and Mr. Sondheim, the show's surviving creators, weren't pleased with the ways their baby was developing under Mr. Mendes.

And that is the shock: that our modern assumptions about safety are punctured by a few days of rain, and so distressingly and violently.

Noel Murray of The A.V. Club gave the episode a C, explaining that "despite some good makeup effects and a few emotional moments, "Johari Window" [was] distressingly average".