The phrase "a valuable body" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a collection or group of items, knowledge, or resources that hold significant worth or importance.
Example: "The research team has compiled a valuable body of work that contributes to our understanding of climate change."
Alternatives: "an important collection" or "a significant body".
The records of these visitations have been preserved and constitute a valuable body of genealogy as well as of heraldry.
However, he questioned her "decision not to refer to any novels or poetry... she has ruled out a valuable body of evidence".
In addition, around 70% of GSE members joined from the private sector, representing a valuable body of relevant commercial and project management experience on which the civil service can draw.
Evaluating both the arguments and debates about the law during these formative years as well as the assumptions made without conflict at that time may provide a valuable body of knowledge for modern trademark scholars.
In his complaint the plaintiff alleged that he owned a valuable body of fertile bottom lands, on he west side of Seneca river, on which he had raised large crops from the time of purchasing the farm, in 1880, until 1895, when the defendant, by its trustees, erected and maintained a high embankment on the eastern side of the river.
It had amassed a valuable body of scientific knowledge, and the association of the Lake Nyasa regions with Livingstone's name and the prospects for colonization that he envisaged there were important factors for the creation in 1893 of the British Central Africa Protectorate, which in 1907 became Nyasaland and in 1966 the republic of Malawi.
And, of course, there's NOAA, which is a very valuable body, but, again, it does not provide a lot of funding for underwater activities.
Actually, I think it's a bit of shame that the diagnosis of a progressive brain disease does more for a man's public profile than the amassing of a distinctive and valuable body of work does.
This collaboration is expected to produce a robust and valuable body of work on the effects of BPA in rats, a key animal model in toxicity testing.
Despite reservations about the accuracy of these data, they represent a large and valuable body of information about the demographics of the UK cattle herd and its contact structure.
Although there is an extensive and valuable body of theoretical and empirical work exploring how predators learn to avoid aposematic prey (e.g. Friedlander 1976; Gittleman et al.
