The phrase "a devastating rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a speed or frequency of something that causes significant harm or destruction.
Example: "The disease spread at a devastating rate, overwhelming hospitals and healthcare systems."
Alternatives: "an alarming pace" or "a catastrophic speed".
Americans, declared a May 2013 report from a House committee, were about to face a devastating "rate shock," with premiums almost doubling on average.
Last week a report by WWF said wildlife was being lost at such a devastating rate that it now threatened civilisation.
The return of A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, a jet built around a machine-cannon capable of a devastating rate of fire, is the result of President Trump's recent decision to increase US firepower and the number of troops in Afghanistan after 16 years of war.
In this week's issue of Huffington, we take you to a town in New York where toxins in the school's athletic fields may be linked to a devastating rate of cancer among young people--and residents say a "fill-for-fields" dumping agreement the school reached with a construction company could be to blame.
What makes the societies different, they agreed, was that a devastating AIDS rate in South Africa is forcing an openness about sex and values that still eludes too many Americans.
Kurds were waiting for coalition aircraft to take out Isis fighters in a Christian village near Tel Osqof, he told the Guardian, because braving militants and bombs together risked a devastating casualty rate.
Members of the tiny, isolated tribe had given DNA samples to university researchers starting in 1990, in the hope that they might provide genetic clues to the tribe's devastating rate of diabetes.
The devastating rate of homelessness among New York's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth continues to rise each year -- a fact brought home even more poignantly during the brisk holiday season.
Today, as the windy city suffers from some of the most devastating rates of violence in the country, I will be taking an apartment in Chicago myself in order to put national spotlight on the epidemic of gun violence tearing families apart.
"The Funding for Lending scheme has had a devastating effect on rates.
While that is still a devastating statistic, malaria rates have actually declined significantly over the last decade, thanks to malaria control interventions.
