Sentence examples for worryingly small from inspiring English sources

He was sitting on the dirt floor of Rafiki's outdoor kitchen, and he looked worryingly small for his age.

Yet the world of auditors, like the credit-ratings industry, continues to be ruled by a worryingly small number of names.

So though the path ahead may be clear, the amount of traffic it can carry looks, for the moment, worryingly small.

That leaves Britain's gas stockpiles around 14 days at peak demand looking worryingly small, especially compared with those in European countries, which often store two months' worth of gas or more.

New research – From Rhetoric to Action – released by our three organisations (Restless Development, War Child UK and Youth Business International) has found that this space is worryingly small and too often restricted.

The area above the well is a worryingly small patch of ocean in which to have three separate vessels sucking up oil and gas, some of which has to be flared off, a flotilla of service vessels of various sorts and a pair of drilling rigs as well: assuring the safety of these cheek-by-jowl vessels means avoiding hasty rearrangement.

More worryingly, smaller banks have been slow to build their reserves against dud loans, even though these are coming off historic lows (see right-hand chart, above).That is not all the banks' fault.

Long-term inflation expectations are worryingly low.

Home attendances have also been worryingly low.

However, she says, the success rate is worryingly low.

They are no longer lending more than a property's value; and before making loans they are demanding proof that space has been pre-let (although, worryingly, there is a small but growing number of speculative buildings with little or no pre-letting in cities such as Dallas and Boston).Even more impre-letting inMr Linneman, has been the "massive equitisation and secitiessuchon" of property.