The phrase "already inefficient" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, process, or system that is not functioning effectively at a given point in time, often implying that it was inefficient before and continues to be so.
Example: "The current workflow is already inefficient, leading to delays in project completion."
Alternatives: "inefficient from the start" or "inefficient as it stands".
Many of those plants are about 50 years old and are already inefficient.
But critics have complained about the high costs and have warned that the program will broaden a subsidy system that is already inefficient and corrupt.
And Lloyd G. Waterhouse, president of Reynolds & Reynolds, which specializes in designing computer systems for auto retailing, said: "Most of the dot-coms are really adding a veneer to an already inefficient system.
James B. Steinberg, the deputy secretary of state, questioned whether Mr. Biden's plan would make the already inefficient Iraqi government more dysfunctional, and suggested an alternative to Mr. Maliki: Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite and former finance minister.
But if youth is India's advantage, the sheer size of its population poses looming pressures on resources and presents an enormous challenge for an already inefficient government to expand schooling and other services.
Indeed, reduced levels of these enzymes would still allow the formation of pathological species (albeit at a reduced rate) that could assemble into insoluble oligomers and fibrils, whereas clearance of oligomers (which is already inefficient when these enzymes are abundant) would be severely compromised.
In other words, an already gravely inefficient economy has become even more inefficient.
The discrimination inherent in regionalism is already economically inefficient but its costs are rising rapidly as manufacturing becomes ever more internationalised.
First, it will drive standards in the industry, forcing them to invest more "dumb money" in areas where they are already grossly inefficient.
North Korea didn't hesitate to let more than 2 million of its people starve to death in the 1990s and early years of this decade, when its already grossly inefficient communist/collectivist agricultural system was hit by drought.
This would be consistent with the observed increase in residual xylose concentrations with decreasing glucose feed (an already relatively inefficient source of PEP), the relative independency between residual xylose concentration and glycerol feed (a good source of PEP), and the decreased growth rate on xylose when Pal/Tal was introduced (drain on PEP for p-hydroxybenzoate production).
