Inner-city young people drop out of school at an appallingly high rate and forfeit the opportunity for a decent job.

Teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases were at appallingly high rates.

And with its learn-to-live-with-drugs approach, harm reduction offers no guidance on how to bring down the appallingly high levels of drug addiction in this country.

New York City accounts for an appallingly high percentage of these deaths, averaging 107 annually since 1980.

But let's face it, an appallingly high number of students manage to graduate from high school today without literacy in English, let alone Computer.

But the fact remains that wine prices are appallingly high.

In some countries, there is an appallingly high suicide rate, and again alcohol is to blame for this.

There is an appallingly high number of homeless people living in our city.

The cost of housing in London is appallingly high; I can't imagine ever being able to buy a home.

And they had an appallingly high dropout rate.