The phrase "a scary amount of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quantity that is surprisingly large or overwhelming, often with a connotation of fear or concern.
Example: "The storm caused a scary amount of damage to the coastal towns, leaving many residents without homes."
Alternatives: "an alarming amount of" or "a frightening quantity of".
She borrowed a scary amount of money from the bank and moved in.
Which is still a scary amount of money ("well, you don't think about that").
The stories flew out the way one exhales after holding one's breath for a scary amount of time.
"There are still a scary amount of high schools that don't have emergency action plans," Casa said, adding that 10 states have met a national guideline for heat acclimatization, and 20 more are closing in on the standard.
At first we weren't sure how much data was there, but after we dug further and visualised the extracted data, it became clear that there was a scary amount of detail on our movements," Warden said.
You must get offered a scary amount of commercial and editorial work.
He is a professional theater man with a love for straight plays and a rather scary amount of industry knowledge, akin to baseball fans who can rattle off decades-old batting averages of obscure players.
A "crazy, scary amount of time" playing the game on his iPad is, we learned this week, our prime minister's favourite form of relaxation.
"I'm talking more about the kinds of big issues that would really need to be addressed in a relationship where you live together, or even in the same town the scary amount of liquor they drink, the way they treat you in front of their friends, the way you put work before relationships, or the way you don't agree on some important issues, for example".
"One of his senior advisers says the P.M. spends 'a crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja,' " Mr. Nelson wrote in The Daily Telegraph.
As President of the 80,000 Hours movement, which takes its name from the scary amount of hours we work in our careers, he doles out alternative careers advice to new job-hunters.
