The phrase "a modest volume" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a book, report, or any collection of written material that is not large in size or scope.
Example: "The author released a modest volume of poetry that captures the essence of everyday life."
Alternatives: "a small book" or "a brief work".
Even with its commentaries, the Sishu is a modest volume, the four parts of which have no consistent order.
The selection of music that played at a modest volume during a wake on Saturday at a church in Brooklyn seemed appropriate.
Labelled "Codex Laurentianus 35.30," it is a modest volume, bound in fading, tattered red leather inlaid with metal, a chain attached to the bottom of the back cover.
These two excerpts are from longer ones -- almost 30 of them -- plucked from novels, memoirs, letters and columns, and newly collected in a modest volume called "Paris in Mind".
A cubic yard of it, filling what at first glance seems a modest volume of 3 feet by 3 feet by 3 feet, weighs nearly 1,700 pounds, as much as the Smart micro car.
The Braven 850 claims its battery can play music continuously for up to 20 hours, although in a test, playing the speaker at a modest volume, it sailed past the 24-hour mark.
A relatively modest volume, it collected some four hundred and fifty recipes gathered from family and friends, garlanded throughout with chatty headnotes and digressions regarding the finer points of entertaining, nutrition, menu planning, and provisioning.
The Goldman downgrades should come as little surprise, given the catastrophic losses the industry has seen thanks to the credit crunch, but they were enough to spark investors to dump financial shares on a day of relatively modest volume.
Owing to the safety concerns over the use of fluid resuscitation in children with severe malnutrition the compromise design of the trial including low to modest volume fluid expansion and a protocol with little flexibility over additional boluses.
Ira was working on a modest little volume of doggerel, its tentative title "Women from Venus, Men from Penis".
A modest sequencing volume generated approximately 5.7 MB of sequence data.
