The phrase
"frightening statistics" refers to numbers or data that are alarming and scary, usually because they show a problem or danger.
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frightening statistics on why the Knight Foundation freaked out and funded the Future of the First Amendment site for high school students, via Bob Ambrogi.
«There are some
quite frightening statistics that show that over 70 % of the kids who sign a scholarship contract at 16 are out of the game by the time they're 20.»
In total, over 44 million Americans owe a record $ 1.3 trillion in student loans and about 4.7 million of them are currently in default on those
loans.With frightening statistics like that, it's not surprising that politicians and pundits are trying to think of ways to fix the problem.
Narrator: Of all
the frightening statistics we hear about child passenger safety, this may be the scariest.
Faced with her own health challenges, and also concerned about
the frightening statistics on the future health of her children's generation, Katie began to evaluate the foods she was eating and feeding to her family.
Here are
some frightening statistics:
These are
frightening statistics.
These frightening statistics do not marry up with the latest available figures from the Office of the Public Guardian that showed only 626,165 lasting power of attorneys (LPO) were registered in 2016/2017.
I mean, most of us know
the frightening statistics out there for lawyers.
We could throw
some frightening statistics at you, like employers spend less than a minute screening a resume and then discard 95 - 99 % of those screened.