"far from being satisfactory" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when something is not up to the expected standards. For example: "The work was far from being satisfactory, so I had to start again from scratch."
The present status of chemotherapy is far from being satisfactory.
Adoption rate and usability of such devices among the aging is far from being satisfactory.
Some reports reveal that the packet error rate of wireless links may be as high as 30%%, which is far from being satisfactory in practical wireless scenarios [11].
The contemporary geobrowsers like Google Earth, NASA's World Wind, or Microsoft's Virtual Earth give little importance to individual client characteristics, and with the low-end clients, the performance is far from being satisfactory.
So far, the established methods for complex processes are far from being satisfactory or from being ready for use in a standardized workflow of any industrial R&D processes.
On the other hand, the awareness is growing that constraining futures research to a collection of specific techniques is far from being satisfactory and that a fundamental theory is needed.
Some had calculated that we could have lost up to 600 councillors, but it's far from being a satisfactory or sustainable position.
(Note that β = 1.0 yields a Lorentzian profile). The best fit to the very high signal-to-noise-ratio zeroth order profile is far from being statistically satisfactory.
Unfortunately, the procedure is far from being always satisfactory.
The four individuals used here are far from satisfactory; they were simply what was on hand at the time the pilot was conceived (which fell outside of the flowering period of the two taxa).
"We have an agreement on a document that is far from satisfactory, that is terribly imperfect, but provides a basis to build on," said Ms. Mohamed, who helped negotiate the agreement.
