1. As the chart shows, it has failed abysmally.

2. The standard of education was abysmally low.

3. Government schools perform abysmally and the system has been set up for failure.

4. Research and development spending by existing firms is abysmally low.

5. Service in the restaurant was abysmally slow. My husband was starting to flip out, so I tried to distract him with small talk.

6. Moreover, in the old centralized system, both the new and old generation fighters had the same abysmally low rates.

7. Mr Khan dreams of leading a mass movement of motivated Pakistanis calling for an Augean clean-up of the country's abysmally corrupt politics.

8. But the two - and - a - half - year - olds , much to my and their parents'surprise , failed abysmally.

9. These strata, lying apparently in contact, are in fact abysmally separated.