Sentence examples for unsettling number from inspiring English sources

However, targeting the marketing may be the trick next time: as the Spectator noted, the crowd did include "an unsettling number of solo middle-aged men with binoculars".

The scary work this time falls to Lauren Ambrose, playing a medical student who realizes that an unsettling number of patients at the hospital where she is studying end up in comas after routine procedures.

Still, despite an abundance of injuries and an unsettling number of embarrassing moments, the Mets are still afloat at 32-29, two games ahead of where they were at this stage last season, if not exactly impressing anyone.

An unsettling number of everyday activities lie at or above the danger line, including lawn-mowing, motorcycle-riding, rock-concert-going, Shop-Vac-ing, milkshake-making, subway-riding, and power-tool-using.

The attacks were soon attributed to the Zetas, a powerful Gulf Coast cartel that is locked in turf wars with other cartels (and a struggle for power with the government) that are ensnaring a deeply unsettling number of Mexican lives — twenty-eight thousand at the last count — since President Felipe Calderón's aggressive drug offensive began four years ago.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 19 — For a short time during a sloppy preseason game against the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night, the Giants' major concerns were on full display all over the field: a questionable rush defense, an unsettling number of penalties, a hit-and-miss offense.

And so, despite unsettling numbers of suicides by gay people, the party's ambience, enhanced by gilded ceilings, red lighting and signature cocktails (Trevortini, anyone?), was frothy fabulous.

Crocker is considered the elder statesman of this defense, but those with close ties to the organization whisper that the ninth-year veteran is one of an unsettling large number of players who were viewed as lazy last season.

Although the scandal has been raging in the Italian news media for weeks and unsettling a growing number of Italians, it has not translated into political defeat for the prime minister, who holds a narrow majority in Parliament.

The CDC's numbers are deeply unsettling, beginning with the number of deaths annually, which is around 75,000 just a little shy of the 88,000 who die from drinking too much every year.

So unsettling have the numbers proved, in fact, that some elected officials have begun to ask aloud a question that previously was uttered only in private: How much more can we afford to pay our police?