The phrase "a notch lower" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a decrease in quality, intensity, or level compared to something else.
Example: "The restaurant's service was good, but the food was a notch lower than I expected."
Alternatives: "a step down" or "a level below".
Her salary at Boise Cascade is slightly lower than what Ore-Ida was paying her, and her new job as an executive assistant is a notch lower.
The Mercedes houses sell for $180,000 to $280,000, and are generally priced a notch lower than other new housing in the immediate area.
Both Dr Fouchier's and Dr Kawaoka's labs are graded a notch lower, at "level 3, enhanced", like the one where Dr Palese revived the 1918 virus.
They practice with their M.L.S. teams during the season and a few play, but most are put on a team in the A-League, which is a notch lower than M.L.S.
"If I had a mutual fund sitting alongside an investment through Mosaic," said Stan Hazelroth, a former executive director of the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, "even if it was maybe a notch lower return, I'd still take the Mosaic investment because I'm such a firm believer in the future of renewable energy".
Egypt ranked fifth-most miserable, a notch lower than in 2016.
Shigeki Maruyama of Japan took golf's magic number one notch lower yesterday by shooting a 58 during qualifying for the United States Open in Rockville, Md .The score will not be recognized as a PGA Tour record because it happened in a qualifying round, but it was more than enough to get Maruyama into the 100th United States Open next week at Pebble Beach, Calif.
Latvia was one notch lower on one of the measures and Lithuania and the 2007 entrants Bulgaria and Romania were one notch lower on both.
But he noted that the threat assessment was "one notch lower" than it had been for most of the period since the 2001 attacks in the United States.
Stocks overall will likely notch lower returns than we saw in the 1980s and 1990s, at least through the end of the next decade 20188 to 2020).
The Valley's top executive recruiters can easily make more than $1 million a year in compensation, and even those just a few notches lower on the rankings are getting enviable offers from venture firms to build out their "platforms".
