"low starting point" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the point from which you are starting a process, journey, or activity. For example, "Life has given me a low starting point, but I'm determined to make the best of it."
But even from that low starting point, Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, has dragged the idea of presidential debates farther down.
However, the prospect of a recovery to the kind of levels seen by winners in past elections – 40% plus – is tempered by the very low starting point for both main competitors.
Things had improved to an extent following the HMIC report, Neate said, but this was from a very low starting point: "If you take that as a baseline it isn't surprising that you're still getting cases like this.
It looks like he's doubling the number of women cabinet ministers, albeit from a low starting point of just three.
In the Soviet era, literacy and average education levels rose dramatically from their very low starting point, despite two changes in the standard alphabet, from Perso-Arabic script to Latin in the 1920s and from Roman to Cyrillic in the 1930s.
From a very low starting point, latrine use improved fairly consistently in three of the five municipalities from 1992 to 1995.
A further impetus will come in the following two quarters, when European banks, spurred by new regulatory requirements on capital ratios, start to repatriate funds at home and back into euros — the impact of which will be more significant for European banks, due to their low starting points for equities.
Since the patients with severe protein C deficiency could potentially have the greatest increases in protein C activity given their very low starting points, one logically would predict that the relative impact of a variable dose and duration would be more extensive and thus one cannot assume that the effect of higher doses in the moderately protein C deficient group would be similar.
Conversely, an athlete with a low start point might have a higher ceiling.
Breastfeeding rates have fallen in recent years from an already low start point.
Despite low ratings — "Starting Point" had just 234,000 viewers on a typical day last year, CNN's smallest audience in the mornings in a decade — Ms. O'Brien said she was proud of the show, and in particular its reputation for tough interviews.
