The phrase "a realistic step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing actions or measures that are practical and achievable in a given context.
Example: "Implementing a flexible work schedule is a realistic step towards improving employee satisfaction."
Alternatives: "a practical measure" or "a feasible action".
"This new test could be a realistic step towards making the holy grail of personalised medicine a reality, offering hope to the 50,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year".
Together the results of these studies suggest that daily walking activity is likely to improve only when a realistic step goal is defined.
The algorithm has been tested on decoy sets for small proteins downloaded from the Decoys'r'us database [ 27], representing a realistic step in a clustering scenario.
If he therefore viewed the disappearance of liberal or socialist utopianism as a positive and realistic step, he also concluded that the old hopes for a rationally organised society had declined with the demise of these unrealistic expectations.
But, at the very least, it is a practical and realistic step to try and eradicate the negative rhetoric and violence that we are so accustomed to hearing about.
It was digital classified advertising that slumped by 18% and led Fox to take the realistic step of a £60m non-cash writedown on the future potential earnings of websites such as SecsintheCity, Fish4jobs and SmartNewHome.
That is, an idea that evolved over a long period of time, achieving what Kaufmann (2000) describes as the adjacent possible – a realistic next step occurring in many iterations.
As conceived and structured it appears to be a realistic first step in quantifying the DOC release consequences for the water column of a reservoir sited upon a peat-soil bed.
Alternately, since much of obstetrical care involves young, healthy women, engaging them to a much larger extent in their care including self-documentation in their charts, is a realistic potential step.
To help bridge the gap between genomic maps and phenotypic maps, a realistic next step in the evolution of annotation is to annotate upstream regulatory sequences and gene regulation as thoroughly as protein-coding regions.
