"low ratio" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a numerical value that is lower than what is expected or usual. For example, "The company is facing financial challenges due to their low ratio of revenue to expenses."
A low ratio in itself is not always a sign of a strong company.
As a result, Brandeis had a low ratio of teacher time spent on instruction, the report said.
Objects with a low ratio, or high drag relative to their mass, will descend in a steeper arc, he said.
The army has sent about 28,000 soldiers to South Waziristan to take on about 10,000 guerrillas, a relatively low ratio, according to military specialists.
A low ratio suggests that each dollar of earnings is priced relatively cheaply -- and should become even cheaper because earnings are growing rapidly.
In German top management, women account for only 6percentt of posts; the same low ratio applies to the presence of women in the French Senate.
A low ratio would indicate an industry doing as Norris and his colleagues foretold: ploughing cash into delivering a better service.
That includes a refreshingly simple four-wheel drive system, with both 4x4 and the low ratio range manually selected.
A low ratio means that median pay grew much more slowly than did the economy as a whole.
The report, which will be sent to Congress in a few weeks, found "strong and compelling" evidence that nursing homes with a low ratio of nursing personnel to patients were more likely to provide substandard care.
He has now reinvented himself as a radical stand-up with just enough charm and stagecraft to get away with an amazingly low ratio of jokes to running time.
