"lost potential" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a missed opportunity or unrealized possibility. For example: "The loss of this contract represents a significant amount of lost potential for our company."
By loudly supporting them, conservatives have lost potential allies.
I've also lost potential tenants because of the lengthy process.
Their suffering and lost potential, as well as their medical treatment, will be a long-term burden in every sense.
By then, Britain will have endured more than seven years of starved public services and lost potential growth.
We are a town of so much lost potential because the people who run this place are so incompetent.
"We're actually really relieved," Mr. Schatz said, adding that though they've mined all the "Lost" potential in one season, there are always other mediums.
The report, written by Anke Hoeffler of Oxford university and James Fearon of Stanford university, adjusts and extrapolates US figures on the tangible and intangible costs – including lost potential earnings – of violent crime to arrive at a global figure.
So discrimination against pregnant women and women with children continues to take place behind closed doors, crushing women's confidence, stagnating their abilities and costing the economy untold amounts through lost potential.
As Mr Williams and his colleague Glenn Rudebusch note in a recent paper, getting the long-term unemployed back to work can restore some of the economy's lost potential.
The results demonstrate that there are indeed opportunity costs associated with temper addition: lost potential strength and reduced vessel use-life.
Follow the money: Agents for these players have at minimum a colorable claim for lost wages and lost potential earnings.
