The phrase "a sensible balance between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to find a reasonable compromise or middle ground between two or more options or ideas.
Example: "In order to achieve success, we must find a sensible balance between innovation and practicality."
Alternatives: "a reasonable compromise between" or "an appropriate middle ground between".
There needs to be a sensible balance between formative assessment (coursework) and summative assessment (final examinations).
In most cases, "In the Black" strikes a sensible balance between the general and the particular.
"There needs to be a sensible balance between being elevated and being accessible".
Mr. McGreevey and Democratic legislative leaders insist that the two plans, taken as a whole, represent a sensible balance between conservation and regulated growth.
Reforms initiated by Lord Woolf, master of the rolls, seek to establish a sensible balance between the value and complexity of disputes and their cost.
It strikes a sensible balance between hovering and reading everything and invading the kids' space, and letting them know that people, adults and other kids, are paying attention.
This contest means a sensible balancing between the benefits of uniformly thriving grass or continued leafy shade.
There needs to be a sensible balance struck between interfering in a natural process but judiciously intervening when things start to go wrong, or preferable before things start to go wrong' (quote article 7).
Put another way, retailers expect that this number of copies will provide them with a sensible balance of risk between overstock and running out of copies in individual stores.
Nonetheless, it creates what Wilson calls "a huge amount of latency in the system". So even though the industry has been moving toward a more sensible balance between money under management and potential returns, it takes a long time to push underperformers out.
There is a sensible balance to be struck between (a) playing nationally to get (supposedly) high standards and (b) playing regionally to reduce long travel and cost and try to retain players.
