The phrase "a massive sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large amount of money or a significant quantity of something.
Example: "The charity received a massive sum in donations, allowing them to expand their programs significantly."
Alternatives: "a huge amount" or "a substantial sum".
It seems strange that such a massive sum should go to a small, unknown firm.
That eruption resulted in planes being grounded for almost a week, stranding millions of travellers and costing the industry a massive sum.
Pimco is based in California and is owned by German financial services giant Allianz; it manages $1.4tn on behalf of pension funds, corporate treasury departments and financial intermediaries - a massive sum that equates to Spain's gross domestic product.
It argued forcefully, and successfully, that the document signed by Shah Alam – known as the Diwani – was the legal property of the company, not the Crown, even though the government had spent a massive sum on naval and military operations protecting the EIC's Indian acquisitions.
It's worth noting that $110 million is a massive sum, but in the age of Uber's billion-dollar raises, it isn't out of the realm of normalcy.
The 16-percent surge came on the heels of news that the Canadian mobile company was being awarded a massive sum after a on-going fight with Qualcomm over patent royalties.
It made headlines two months ago, when it bought Boston Dynamics, the firm that produces spectacular, terrifyingly life-like military robots, for an "undisclosed" but undoubtedly massive sum.
"Vodafone insists we should pay this massive sum, without giving any consideration to the circumstances".
Why might Twitter want to borrow the massive sum?
The massive sum, 40 times bigger than the previous known demand by the European Commission to a company in such a case, could be reduced, the EU executive said in a statement, if other countries sought more tax themselves from the U.S. tech giant.
Former AIG CEO Hank Greenberg, who had been forced out by Spitzer, wrote that "the federal government is using AIG as a conduit to pump massive sums to the counterparties of AIG's credit default swaps".
