The phrase "a boost to start" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that provides initial encouragement or support to begin an activity or process.
Example: "The funding we received was a boost to start our new project on renewable energy."
Alternatives: "an initial push" or "a kickstart".
That's what gave the paramilitaries such a big boost to start with, and that's what made their reign of terror so successful from the get-go: They enlisted lots of trained guerillas.
SEIS offers 50% income tax relief on the amount invested; and as a one-off boost to start the scheme, if you re-invest capital gains from 2012/13 then you do not pay capital gains on this from then on.
Instead, waking up and feeling happy to be alive is going to give you the right energy boost to start the day right.
This is essential, because the economic stimulus is just that--a boost to get things started.
The 29-year-old right-hander provides a boost to a starting rotation plagued by injuries and a team that slipped three games behind Oakland in the AL West after being swept in a three-game weekend series at home against Baltimore.
The chancellor, Gordon Brown, is expected to start assessing his five economic tests within a few months, and a slip-up by the No camp will be regarded as a boost to the pro-Europeans who would start as underdogs in any referendum campaign.
He could yet be joined in the heart of the Palace midfield by Milligan, in what would arguably be a boost to both players' hopes of a starting place in Brazil.
The event provided a boost to the Pentagon as it was starting to push for a $3 billion increase in missile defense spending and as President Bush was preparing to meet in Europe with allied leaders and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, who opposes the missile defense program.
Mandelson's intervention could give a boost to David Miliband's campaign at the start of the week in which MPs, MEPs, party activists and members of affiliated organisations will start voting in the postal ballot to elect a new leader on 25 September.
