The phrase "a very large sum" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a significant amount of money or resources in various contexts, such as financial discussions or transactions.
Example: "The company received a very large sum from the investors, which will help expand their operations."
Alternatives: "a substantial amount" or "a considerable sum".
Any way you slice it, it is a very large sum.
I'm going round there right now to give them what for!" Our council tax is now a very large sum.
I find they have subscribed a very large sum of money in England for exploring the country from the Missisipi to California.
What is remarkable is that Corbijn - already a legendary stills photographer - gambled a very large sum of money from his own pocket to get this picture made.
The painting cost $400, a very large sum for us, but the gallery let us put 25percentt down, take the piece home, and pay $50 a month.
It could be expected, however, that no sensible person would pay a very large sum for the privilege of taking the gamble.
Ms. Kolkhorst said that in some cases the project negotiations had "actually fractured the health community more, because just a few people are in charge of this very large sum of money".
I walked to an ATM right after the theater and took that very large sum out of my savings account and paid him cash.
The acting chair of the committee, the Tory MP Bob Blackman, said: "We will be wanting to know why this very large sum has not been spent at a time of great strain on local authority budgets, and why it was not channelled to other spending projects.
Taken aback, MacShane then joked: "Is it too late to become an MEP?" Farage insisted that he had not "pocketed" the money but had used the "very large sum of European taxpayers' money" to help promote Ukip's message that the UK should get out of the EU.
"After I protested vociferously and publicly on both occasions in the name of the Institut, the letter didn't find a buyer," Mr. de Broglie wrote, "but it proved impossible for us to raise the very large sum that the seller demanded, and even though it can't be sold, this 1638 letter remains in private hands".
