21.   But even children rear children here, and in alarming numbers.

22.   Despite the alarming numbers, the panic in Russian markets has not been felt on the streets.

23.   First, there are the alarming numbers.

24.   Gingrich, apparently, because he can occasionally sound clever and he hates Clinton, an aspect of his behavior shared by an alarming number of people.

25.   However, federal and state biologists said the alarming number of dead turtles began turning up about the time shrimp season started in Georgia.

26.   If it seems there have been an alarming number of suspensions and fines doled out this young season, there have.

27.   In Nebraska, officials last month found an alarming number of diseased white-tail deer at a private hunting preserve in the northwest corner of the state.

28.   It may be a pretty alarming number.

29.   It is fact that there are an alarming number of teen-age suicides happening, and no one knows why the teen-ager is choosing death instead of life.

30.   Matthew Lillard has made more than a few mirthless movies -- an alarming number of which starred Freddie Prinze Jr. -- amusing just by showing up.