Sentences with phrase «alarming figures released»

I hate to get heavy here, and ruin your buzz, but alarming figures released by The National Crime Agency (NCA) show the number of people reporting rape on their first date with someone they met on a dating website or app has risen by more than 450 % in five years.

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The initial reports are alarming but scattered, because the complex figures are not released in a way that is conducive to rapid analysis.

The PDK / Gallup poll released last week shows 54 percent of Americans — a majority now — agree that «standardized tests are not helpful» in letting teachers know what to teach, a figure that jumps to an alarming 68 percent when you count only public school parents.

I have read the climateprediction.net paper in question, and because of the serious methodological problems with it (but nevertheless it got into Nature — go figure), it is considerably less alarming than the press release issued by the researchers themselves.

When the Bureau of Meteorology in January released figures showing 2005 was the hottest year on record, Campbell declared: «It's the hottest year, the hottest decade, the hottest minimum and the hottest maximum», before adding: «The main thing is not to alarm people».15