The phrase "an initial amount" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a starting quantity or sum of money in various contexts, such as finance, budgeting, or project planning.
Example: "To begin the project, we will allocate an initial amount of $10,000 for the first phase."
Alternatives: "a starting sum" or "a preliminary amount."
"The EU in particular has already promised an initial amount of around €550m (£463m).
B&B, on the other hand, only started repayments this year, with an initial amount of £150m.
The plan is to have it up and running by September, with the UK and Denmark providing an initial amount of $20m in the hope that others will follow.
The deal for £10.25bn in cash, including an initial amount of £9.25bn followed by a deferred £1bn, blocks Sky's reported bids for the network and will make the combined Three and O2 operator the biggest in the UK with a 41% share of the market.
Mr. Mordant and his wife donated an initial amount of 10 million Australian dollars (they later donated another 5 million) and through a series of other donations, fund-raisers and lobbying local, state and national government, the museum was able to raise enough money to expand the building instead.
In CAS1, an initial amount of aqueous phase was added inside the autoclave followed by the injection of CO2.
Figure 1(b) shows that the ligand density underwent a clear increment from 39.10 to 66.30 μmol/g with an increasing initial amount of L-thyroxin.
As both food patches contained an identical initial amount of food mixed thoroughly throughout the patch, the change in the rate of food gain between the patches has to be a result of differences in the fox's foraging behavior while exploiting them.
To start the fermentation with a substantial initial amount of fermentable sugars (>2 g/l), a prehydrolysis of 378 g LTWS and enzyme preparation (88 mg per g DM LTWS) in approximately 6 l volume at pH 6.0 for 2 h was introduced.
A higher initial amount of HABO resulted in two times higher level of soluble P concentration observed even at the end of the first batch cycle.
After a careful verification that the system dynamics was not affected by the removal of this module, we chose to substitute this set of reactions with a congruous initial amount of the complex U b c13: M m s2 (assumed to be already formed and available in the initial state of the system), in order to speed up the simulations.
