The phrase "a fair sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an amount of money that is considered reasonable or just in a particular context.
Example: "After negotiating, we agreed on a fair sum for the services rendered."
Alternatives: "a reasonable amount" or "an equitable sum".
Why not a fair sum for the mixing board that gave us "Billie Jean"?
That's hardly high-tech, but it saves the families and the government a fair sum.
A fair sum for snow removal in all 5 borough is $100,000 an inch.
But Barclays, it is said, was asked for $4bn, versus its own analysis that a fair sum would be $1bn and $2bn could have been swallowed for the sake of certainty.
Many would probably feel that $10 a year is a fair sum to contribute in order to assure that if you were seriously injured as a result of medical malpractice, you would be awarded enough both to pay your lawyer and cover your lost income and medical expenses, as well as having a modest sum left over for your pain and suffering.
In the Suen case, the jury's foreman said that the jurors decided in the first hour of deliberations that the plaintiff was owed money for having helped Adelson obtain the Macao license, and they spent the next nine hours trying to figure out what would be a fair sum.
I think that's a fair summing up of the exhibition's intentions.
My mother, however, described them as "chick lit for men" and I think that's a fair summing-up.
So it makes sense that in 1962, the producer Leland Hayward said that "the Hardy Family in the White House" would be a fair summing up of "Mr. President," which he described as "a warm, human, simple story of a man who is president".
It was a fair summing up of a particular moment (there's more to come; this is part one of two), enlivened by old footage and the fact that three of the four rebels are still around (Hughes died in 2012) to offer necessary perspective, and odd memories.
Once embedded in the starting line-up, Holden became one of M.L.S.'s top attacking midfielders and turned down numerous offers to renegotiate his four-year contract for a fairer sum.
