The phrase "a healthy sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a significant amount of money or resources, often implying that it is substantial enough to be beneficial or satisfactory.
Example: "After years of saving, she finally had a healthy sum to invest in her dream home."
Alternatives: "a considerable amount" or "a substantial sum."
Both candidates raised more than $700,000 for their campaigns — a healthy sum for Kansas — but Marshall loaned his campaign more than $280,000.
That is still a healthy sum, but most of it lies in the Social Security and Medicare funds which are supposed not to be touched.
The food processor can do this, too, and yes, you may have already spent a healthy sum of money on one, but the mezzaluna does something a food processor cannot.
But unlike prime minister Harold Macmillan's hugely popular scheme, first introduced in the 1950s, the bonds will accumulate interest so savers can build up a healthy sum over time to meet the cost of care in later life.
Most of the time, putting up a healthy sum of money will do the job, but, in a handful of recent cases, high-profile mobsters have had to subject themselves to considerably more.
In the past, retirees relied on defined-benefit pensions to help defray these costs and were often able to sell their homes for a healthy sum, providing the means to pay for institutional care, while those with more limited means rely on Medicaid.
"That's a pretty healthy sum.
A huge amount of business gets done here; if I could tot it up, it would make a very healthy sum.
Another option, says Hannums, is to open multiple current accounts so that you can earn the most amount of interest while being able to save a healthy lump sum.
Such objects can fetch healthy sums at sales: a 1904 vase that Leona Nicholson striped in yellow tulips brought $24,400 in 2010 at Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, N.J.
