Perhaps all this helps explain why there has been an alarming rise in figure-skating hooliganism.

Belfast has consequently experienced an alarming rise in organized criminal activity.

The modern warming shows a distinct temperature rise between 1910 and 1940 plus an alarming rise in the last 50 years.

Paramilitary intimidation, especially against teenagers, has led to an alarming rise in young suicides.

That preference has been strengthened by an alarming rise in unemployment since last autumn.

Statistics, they said, showed an alarming rise in this crime at Super Bowl time.

Prisoners are held in appalling conditions, with an alarming rise in deaths this year.

This, he claims, reflects an alarming rise in the number of people hooked on cannabis.

(This isn't the place to point out America's alarming rise in obesity.)

This might be one way of curbing the alarming rise in dyslexia.