The phrase "already low rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a rate that is currently low and has been low for some time.
Example: "Despite the economic downturn, we are pleased to maintain our already low rate for our services."
Alternatives: "previously low rate" or "currently low rate".
But given the already low rate that was in place, the effect may be largely symbolic.
Managing to keep the already low rate of inspections from slipping even lower is what counts as progress at a time when we have only 2,200 OSHA inspectors for the entire country – a workforce plagued, according to a recent report (pdf) by the Government Accountability Office, by poor training and retention rates due to budget cuts.
This suggests that the already low rate of helmet use among purchasers of new motorcycles continues to decrease over time.
There's no pleasing that man". There is no mention of the shift in job descriptions, long period of no contact or the fact that the salary was decreased from an already low rate with way too high expectations.
However, as a 'do not do' guidance, a decline even in the already low rate would have been anticipated.
A regionalization program involving referral to high volume surgeons and hospitals might decrease the already low rate of perioperative complications at the cost of increasing arthritis related disability [ 11].
When economic fears grip the market, as was the case during much of 2011, investors will often gravitate toward ultrasafe Treasury bonds, driving already low rates even lower while pushing up prices.
The OECD says that in the event that growth does slip, government spending on infrastructure, funded by borrowing, should play a leading role in recovery, rather than further interest rates cuts given the concerns about the housing market and the already low rates.
The jobless data suggests "that wage growth is set to weaken from already low rates" and further depress consumer spending, which has already been hurt by government austerity measures, wrote Jennifer McKeown, an economist at Capital Economics in London, in a research note.
But over the last two decades, local officials essentially froze domestic gas prices at already low rates, drastically widening its price gap with its neighbors year-by-year.
It is possible that the already low rates of morbidity and PNF in studies of liver resection and transplantation, respectively, coupled with relatively small patient numbers, which meant that the studies were insufficiently powered to detect differences with respect to clinical outcomes [ 22].
