The phrase "already rather poor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition that is currently lacking in quality or resources, emphasizing that it has been poor for some time.
Example: "The economy was already rather poor before the pandemic hit, making recovery even more challenging."
Alternatives: "already quite poor" or "already fairly poor".
"Blackpool could end up clobbering people who are already rather poor, rather than the landlord".
For A. artemisiifolia, an opportunistic species confined to open, disturbed and nutrient-rich ruderal sites and arable land (Pyšek et al. 2012 a ), the above factors are likely to influence its already rather poor competitive ability (Leskovšek et al. 2012 a ) in regions where temperatures and nutrient supply are suboptimal, and adversely affect the early stage of population establishment.
New Zealand already has a rather poor reputation in these meetings and negotiations, in my understanding".
The associated uncertainty for the model (cf. Table 4) already indicates that prediction results can be expected to be rather poor.
Again, the expectancy values were rather poor, but in this case, we were already able to purify the mature peptide from the venom of H. gertschi, and it is now under study.
However, the first method was already rather well optimized, and much higher skin doses will be incurred if protection is poor.
This is perhaps one reason why Facebook hasn't taken greater hold here, although I've heard from several people that its translations have been rather poor (Twitter, on the other hand, has experienced a modest level of success already).
However, it offers rather poor sensitivity and specificity (70 80%) [ 6] and usually reflects an already-triggered inflammatory reaction.
As already mentioned above, the best results were achieved using mutual information and the modified Jensen-Rényi divergence, while results obtained using generalized Rényi divergence are rather poor.
The results obtained in this paper are already rather promising.
