"a realistic level of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a practical or achievable amount or degree of something. Example: "To be successful, it is important to have a realistic level of expectation and not set your goals too high."
What the arts need is not more management, but a realistic level of funding.
As he put it, "Pigs will fly over the State House before there is a realistic level of new taxes or spending cuts that can fix this mess".
"Now there isn't anything specific to Utah and people are sitting back and saying, 'What's a realistic level of response?' " Backing down also leaves room to scale up again if threats become more serious.
A few people have dressed in pig costumes, parodying Mr. Corzine's admonition that his plan to raise money was necessary because "pigs will fly over the State House before there is a realistic level of new taxes or spending cuts that can fix this mess".
The reported compensation fee for him of £3.5m may sound an awful lot, but it could equally be said to reflect a realistic level of transfer fee at a time when clubs are happy to "gamble" four times that amount on a striker.
She says a common theme in dealing with these is the lack of a realistic level of response from global health institutions and governments.
The scope of the question should be at a realistic level for the size of your business.
A benchmark should represent a clinically realistic level of excellence and at the same time exceed mean performance [ 16].
Allowing a more realistic level of borrowing would mean pushing up the overall debt level.
29 With optimal medical adherence, medical treatment is presumed to be superior to laser treatment; however a more realistic level of adherence may prove the other way round.
Because of the multiple comparisons (n = 60) involved in such inference, we applied the Bonferroni correction ie, we divided the level of significance (P-value) by n to ensure a more realistic level of significance for challenging the null hypothesis.
