The phrase "a useful boost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that provides support, encouragement, or enhancement in a particular context.
Example: "The new marketing strategy provided a useful boost to our sales figures this quarter."
Alternatives: "a helpful increase" or "a beneficial lift".
Increasing Africa's slice would be a useful boost to the continent's international trade.
Guy Lodge, from awards site In Contention, suggests it may even give Von Trier career a useful boost, especially following lukewarm reviews for Melancholia itself.
So if you are earning £50,000 a year, then it's not that great, as each bit of money will be taxed at 40%, but if you are, say, working part-time, and pay 20% tax, then it could be a useful boost to your income.
The only problem is that this tentative march of the moderates — which got a useful boost here with the Annapolis peace gathering — is driven largely by fear, not by any shared vision of a region where Sunni and Shiite, Arab and Jew, trade, interact, collaborate and compromise in the way that countries in Southeast Asia have learned to do for their mutual benefit.
On top of that, preparations for the Athens Olympics in August are lagging behind schedule.The centre-right New Democracy party's unexpectedly big win in the March 7th election has given Mr Karamanlis a useful boost at the start of his four-year term.
Ultimately, her "small shop" even provided a useful boost to the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (renamed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum).
While such training opportunities aren't abundant, they appear to give participants a real and useful boost toward entrepreneurial and other career opportunities.
The stronger dollar versus pound provides a useful translation boost to earnings.
Given the prospect of the worst global recession in 50 years, this is a useful confidence-boosting success.But, however gigantic it may have seemed to the exhausted negotiators in Doha, this first step is in fact the smallest one.
The idea has set the country's press and local wags alight with speculation about how far such an idea could go.Take the conservative view, and the project is a useful albeit limited boost to trade and regional integration.
