"overwhelming rate" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is happening at a very fast or intense pace, often to a degree that is difficult to manage or control. Example: The overwhelming rate of technological advancements is changing the way we live and work.
Online, the amount of recorded audio is growing at an overwhelming rate, providing a new impetus for speed listening.
Coming up short in the mind of the consumer is one reason for the overwhelming rate of failures in product launches.
The engineering feats involved in advances like these are tremendous: increasing the data rate required engineers to design lasers that can reliably flash on and off 40 billion times per second, and receivers that can pick out one flash from the next, when they're coming at that overwhelming rate.
Since Rodriguez's last game, Granderson is hitting.291 with 22 runs batted in; Teixeira is hitting.292 with 6 home runs and 20 R.B.I.; and Cano is hitting.315 with 3 home runs, 7 doubles and 19 R.B.I. "The production is there," Long said, adding that while the Yankees have only one.300 hitter in their everyday lineup (Cano is batting.301), they are scoring runs at an overwhelming rate.
Toffler's prophetic book catalogued our culture's overwhelming rate of change in many areas of daily life (including gender relations), particularly due to technological advances.
At Pine Flat Lake at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, engineers were forced to increase outflows from the reservoir into the Kings River as melting snow poured in at an overwhelming rate.
With respect to health insurance, particular ethnic groups have overwhelming rates of uninsurance.
We have an overwhelming unemployment rate of 13percentt.
This disease has an overwhelming fatality rate," Dr Bruce Ribner of Emory University Hospital told ABC News.
It is, first of all, said to be impossible to determine the actual present-day effect of slavery -- to trace the impact of slavery on, for example, today's overwhelming incarceration rate among black males, or to calculate all those generations of lost or artificially depressed wages.
If you want to know the truth about gasoline prices, here it is: The exploding demand for oil, especially in places like China, is completely overwhelming the rate of new discoveries by so much that oil prices are almost certain to continue upward over time, no matter what the oil companies promise.
