The phrase "and the notion was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce an idea or concept that was previously mentioned or is being elaborated upon.
Example: "The project was ambitious, and the notion was that it would revolutionize the industry."
Alternatives: "and the idea was" or "and the belief was".
And the notion was, somehow, that we had exaggerated the effects of the sequester.
When a new administration came into power, though, a dispute emerged over the plans, and the notion was left behind.
The idea here was to give the penitent a safe and confidential space in which to talk, and the notion was usefully transferred to counsellors and psychoanalysts.
Others were thinking along the same lines, and the notion was not new, but Shepherd-Barron's entrepreneurial skills pushed the idea through so that today the number of automatic teller machines (ATMs) is approaching two million worldwide.
In that case, told in Jonathan Harr's 2005 best seller "The Lost Painting," a restorer with scholarly ambitions, like Mr. Forcellino, not a curator or art historian, saw the painting, argued that its attribution to a follower of Caravaggio was wrong, and the notion was confirmed through historical research by two graduate students.
He suggested that the Mets should practice and play on the same surface they play half their real games on, and the notion was adopted after the Mets and the county of Port St .Lucie, which owns the stadium, agreed to split the $15,000 cost.
But she lived in Los Angeles, where an agent saw her sing in a school play aged eight, and so inevitably the notion was put to her.
And the notion is no more radical than that of some cosmologists who argue that our universe is only one in a multiverse — a possibly infinite number of co-existing, but undetectable, universes.
You'd probably think that both the person and the notion were pretty crazy.
All of these, obviously, are egregiously unfair -- alright, except for the overbearing Jewish mother part -- but they do exist in the culture, and the notion is front and center in The Social Network.
The notion was intriguing.
