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'disturbingly high' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is greater than expected or desired and arouses feelings of alarm or concern. For example: "The rate of teenage pregnancy in this region is disturbingly high."
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Why does this number remain so disturbingly high?
"But both sexes report a disturbingly high percentage of abuses".
Violence is disturbingly high for all LGBT people.
"Support for Marine Le Pen [National Front, far right] is disturbingly high, mostly among working people.
Portuguese unemployment is disturbingly high, as is joblessness in Belgium and France.
Viewers can rate the videos (a video teaching how to pick a lock rates disturbingly high).
But Jill S. Levy, the president of the city principals' union, said the number of departures was disturbingly high.
Though suicides among older people have declined in recent decades, most likely as a result of improved screening and treatment for depression, they remain disturbingly high among men.
While pointing out that many microfinance institutions charge disturbingly high interest rates, the article discusses little of what is being done to reduce them.
The United States has poured money into Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to train and aid their police, but violence remains disturbingly high, raising vexing questions.
Then the rates more or less plateaued at a disturbingly high level, a trend that has continued with data from a 2009-10 survey.
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