The course has also lost an alarming proportion of its average crowd and a distressing number of key sponsors.

An alarming proportion of retirees still are not comparing deals, potentially missing out on thousands of pounds of income in their old age.

But the very fact that it exists, tells us that the growth of the fraud industry has reached alarming proportions.

The problem has reached alarming proportions.

Despite these changes, strike activity again reached alarming proportions in the 1890s, resulting in the restriction of the workday to eleven and a half hours in 1897.