The phrase "a specified sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particular amount of money that has been clearly defined or stated.
Example: "The contract stipulates that the payment will be made in a specified sum at the end of the project."
Alternatives: "a designated amount" or "a defined sum".
The proceedings were stayed on the basis that NGN pay a specified sum in full and final settlement of PJS's claim for damages and costs.
This month, for example, it added the option to make direct payments to its service, letting users donate a specified sum directly to a website.
Here, policyholders pay a premium each month for a set term and, should they die before the term is over, the insurance company will pay a specified sum to the beneficiaries.
Acceptance, short-term credit instrument consisting of a written order requiring a buyer to pay a specified sum at a given date to the seller, signed by the buyer as an indication of his intention to honour his obligation.
Historically, stock options (contracts to purchase an amount of stock within a certain period of time, for a specified sum of dollars per share) were granted to key (read: important) employees as additional compensation for past performance and present diligence, and as an incentive for future work and loyalty.
They also paid a specified sum to the Government.
Using the inverse scattering transform formalism we give an algorithm to exactly achieve a specified "summed" transverse magnetization profile.
The cash-transfer is a lump-sum payment, which is granted to individuals who extend their labour supply and reduce benefit receipt by a specified amount.
"If it's the airline and the agent won't help, write to the former stating that you require the specified sum by a specified date or else you will take them to court.
To evaluate the runtime improvement of the newly implemented algorithm compared with the filter-free version, 200 compounds from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) compound database with specified sum formulas and known molecular masses were chosen in the mass interval from 0 to 1000 Da.
For a specified n, the sum of probabilities for all bars in Figure 7 correspond to the fault missing rate of SSC in Figure 8, and the sum of probabilities for 2-6 congruentve congruent samples correspond to the fault missing rate of MSC with N = 2.
