'a sluggish pace' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is slow or lethargic. For example: The bus drove at a sluggish pace through the city streets.
American economic output has continued to expand at a sluggish pace.
Crawling along at a sluggish pace, the music begs for resolution.
Japan After bouncing back from last year's Tsunami and nuclear disaster, Japanese growth has returned to a sluggish pace.
Because the economy is already recovering at a sluggish pace, he said, even if it hasn't been vigorous enough to cut unemployment, which remains at 9.6 percent.
Indeed, rushing to do so with unemployment still elevated and the economy growing at only a sluggish pace could even set back the effort to reduce the deficit.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturing in the United States contracted for a second consecutive month in July, further evidence of an economy growing at a sluggish pace.
Compared with other, better known wireless standards, it operates over very short ranges measured in mere centimetres and it transfers data at a comparatively sluggish pace, not much faster than a dial-up modem.But that does not mean that NFC is lacking in ambition.
The US economy was growing at around 2% a year and creating some new jobs, but at a very sluggish pace.
At best, the economy may well continue merely to sputter along, growing a bit faster than in the first quarter, but still at a rather sluggish pace.
In spite of this, Senate Republicans have been confirming nominees at a record sluggish pace.
Nevertheless, the United States is forecast to grow at a relatively sluggish pace of about 2.5 percent this year.
