Sentence examples for frightening statistic from inspiring English sources
ALMOST half of Americans are on a diet — not surprising, since two-thirds are overweight or obese, a frightening statistic that inspired Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to push through a ban on large soft drinks in New York City.
According to the International Society of Indoor Air Pollution's 15-year study, women who stay at home or work from home have a 54 percent HIGHER risk of dying of cancer than women who work outside the home.[1] (As a woman who works from her house, that's a really frightening statistic!).
This is a frightening statistic, but it is also, we feel, a suspect one.
Each was accompanied by an equally frightening statistic for likelihood of disability.
Given that more than one in ten users surf the web with Chrome, that's a frightening statistic.
For example, more than nine million homes have uninsulated cavity walls – and this contributes to a frightening statistic by British Gas suggesting that £1 in every £3 spent on heating is lost as a result of poor insulation.
"That statistic is horrifying, frightening," says William Bratton, the (white) police chief of America's second-biggest city.
Donna's lawyer, George Hawkes, said: 'She was convicted of murder on the basis of a statistic and that is frightening.' Jean Golding - professor of Epidemiology at Bristol University - is one of a tiny number of academics who have the courage to condemn Meadow outright.
Since last December, 11 Aboriginal people in the Kimberley have killed themselves – a statistic that one senior health official described as " frightening".
