An appalling number of homeless people wander the streets.

They were still going to have an appalling number of misfires, but he'd done all he could to minimize them.

Another survey has revealed that an appalling number of schoolchildren cannot find the United States on a world map.

But have you looked past what went right to the appalling number of things that could easily have gone wrong?

Each of them showed a minute, perfectly spherical pigmented microorganism in appalling numbers.

The Kilrathi lose an old-style carrier and an appalling number of fighters (nearly 600), but that will probably not make a difference.

Horsip described the appalling number of wrecked and sabotaged ground-cars.

There are plenty of them, but an appalling number of poor ones, too.

But when American troops leave Bangladesh, the people will continue to die in appalling numbers.

My last point relates to employment, which is of course particularly important for us because of the appalling number of people out of work.