1.   Such considerations are important with respect to efficiency, as an alarming amount of time can be spent on the road as opposed to face to face with buyers.

2.   As it turned out, this spring has brought an alarming amount of business.

3.   In all years, I spend an alarming amount of time fighting pestilence and disease on the lawn.

4.   It is a place of ticky-tacky motels, swanky resorts, an alarming amount of pink flamingo yard art and an enticing number of wooden lobster traps stacked roadside.

5.   She receives an alarming amount of hate mail and was burned in effigy by tobacco activists.

6.   So I voted for the Democrat, even though his campaign literature disclosed an alarming amount of time spent in divinity schools.

7.   They use alarming amounts of chemicals and artificial feed.