The phrase "a much smaller sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing amounts, particularly in financial contexts, to indicate that one amount is significantly less than another.
Example: "The total cost of the project was initially estimated at $10,000, but after revisions, we found it to be a much smaller sum of $6,000."
Alternatives: "a significantly lesser amount" or "a considerably reduced total".
It was a much smaller sum than they usually discussed.
Paying off a much smaller sum than with HP on the same car makes monthly repayments a lot cheaper.
However, a report in the Mail on Sunday said Gray was "offered and accepted a much smaller sum from his employer of 20 years".
It is thought a much smaller sum, perhaps around £100,000, will now change hands – although Boro refuse to comment on the matter.
The same organisation that made Sherlock frittered away £100m on a failed IT initiative; it runs five orchestras, the Today programme and the World Service; it inexplicably buys – and then sells for a much smaller sum – the Lonely Planet guides.
The documents show that the government obtained a court order on Aug. 20, 1999, to seize the $15 million from the Sobinbank account and a much smaller sum, about $11,000, from an account controlled by a bank called DKB.
The vast majority of deposits are thought to have been made in US dollars, with a much smaller amount in sterling and lesser sums in euros and Canadian dollars.
Its leader, Robert Catesby, asked him to provide a large sum of money and the use of Rushton Hall, but Tresham apparently provided neither, instead giving a much smaller amount of money to fellow plotter Thomas Wintour.
But the MPs dispute that arithmetic, saying that the real amount of extra cash being given to the NHS in England between 2014-15 and 2020-21 is only £6bn and even that much smaller sum has only come from cutting spending on public health programmes and medical education and training by £3.5bn.
Financial transactions in Ecuador, where the minimum wage is under $100 a month, involve much smaller sums than in the United States, and thus the demand for coins has been greater than the government's ability to meet it.
But the amount is expected to decline in the next budget, even below the $200,000 given by New York University each year, and the much smaller sums donated by a handful of civic groups.
