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"off the pace" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone who is slower than the others in achieving a task. For example, "Despite his hard work, John was off the pace compared to his classmates."
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Mbithi fell off the pace.
Worse still, their seamers looked off the pace as well.
Then Earnhardt's car fell off the pace abruptly.
This time, they won from off the pace.
Afshartous soon fell prey to his chronic shin splints, and fell off the pace.
Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull was third, 0.765secs off the pace.
Marussia's English driver Max Chilton was 1.035secs off the pace of his French team-mate.
The Dane was eighth fastest, 2.203secs off the pace, after a run on the soft tyre.
I eased off the pace.
Stevens viewed his attempt to make Oxbow run off the pace as a mistake.
Nearly seven minutes off the pace.
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