The phrase "a surprising sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an unexpected total or amount, often in contexts involving calculations, finances, or statistics.
Example: "After reviewing the expenses, we found a surprising sum that exceeded our initial budget projections."
Alternatives: "an unexpected total" or "a shocking amount."
In New York, Alan Alda, Victor Garber and Alfred Molina portray the three longtime French friends whose shared affection is upended when one of them buys an all-white painting for a surprising sum.
Now, in the early months of a nonelection year, that strategy has homed in on the special election here, where the spending by super PACs, a surprising sum for a single House race, has already shown signs of shifting the balance in a district Ms. Halvorson was once strongly favored to win.
That sum delivers a surprising amount of performance.
Killip and Simon [24] have given a revival interest to this subject by showing a quite surprising sum rule for measures dominating the semicircular distribution on [−2,2].
(The work sold for the surprising sum of a hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars in a Christie's charity auction benefitting victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan).
It smells like summer to me, back when tomatoes came free from our backyard and not at surprising sums from Holland". Smitten Kitchen, these days, is not just a food blog: it is the food blog, what many people think of when you say those words.
It smells like summer to me, back when tomatoes came free from our backyard and not at surprising sums from Holland".
A surprising number of people carry vast sums in cash, lose it — and then get it returned by Good Samaritans.
When I shared the mayonnaise-flavoured tears with friends and family, I was given a surprising spectrum of responses that could be summed up as, "why don't you just be a writer?
When I shared the mayonnaise-flavored tears with friends and family, I was given a surprising spectrum of responses that could be summed up as, "why don't you just be a writer?
The aggregate analysis yielded a surprising finding.
