11.   An alarming number of leaders do not really know if they have resonance with their organizations.

12.   And, like an alarming number of cliches, it is true.

13.   As an elementary school teacher she encountered an alarming number of children with behavioral problems, their family lives strained or fractured.

14.   At big airports, recent studies have shown an alarming number of incidents.

15.   At the time, they were seen as an antidote to the alarming number of suicides and suicide attempts among gay and lesbian students.

16.   ATLANTA - Alarming numbers of threatened and endangered sea turtles have washed up dead on Georgia beaches in recent weeks.

17.   Because judging from my recent mail, rum is being consumed here in some alarming numbers.

18.   Alarming numbers of Latinas never make it to college.

19.   All kinds of alarming numbers hit the leader board as Els tried to stay cool.

20.   But an alarming number of their economists have privately admitted to The Economist that they believe that the risk of recession is higher than their published forecasts say.