The phrase "a very low return" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the yield or profit from an investment or effort that is significantly less than expected or desired.
Example: "Investing in that startup resulted in a very low return, making it difficult to justify the risk taken."
Alternatives: "a minimal return" or "a poor return".
What I didn't like about potatoes was the extraordinary amount of work it took to do a good job with a very low return.
That said, those in favour of a sell-off point out that there are a number of ways in which BT would benefit.For a start, BT gets a very low return on capital employed in its local loop: just 0.2%, according to figures in its most recent report to Oftel, the telecoms regulator.
"We could have a very low return on sales and still have a huge return on invested capital because our model is so scalable".
She adds, "the reason I chose accessories is that accessories are light to ship, have a very low return rate and they are pretty much size agnostic so a woman who is 300 pounds can wear the same earrings that a woman who is 90 pounds can, and so the whole model works very cost efficiently because you don't have very high returns and sizing is not a real issue".
Economists, from the most conservative to the most liberal, agree that they provide a very low return - if any - on investment.
The study site in Berlin had a very low return rate.
Spine-area pain is a common disabling injury in service members associated with a very low return-to-duty (RTD) rate.
That's telling you that the flight to safety continues: rather than take the risk of lending to the private sector, investors are willing to park their money in Treasuries for a very, very low return.
For instance, the report from wheat growing highlands of southeast Ethiopia indicated very low return of crop residue, lack of crop rotation, low rate of mineral fertilizer application and absence of long term fallowing (Belachew and Abera 2010).
As noticed from the discussion, farmers in the study area practiced fallowing not deliberately for restoring soil fertility; rather it was due to very low return from it (i.e., when the cultivable land has reached the point of no return in crop yield).
Unfortunately, almost all these workers also chose the default investment, typically a money market fund with very low returns and a low monthly contribution.
