The phrase "a surprising volume" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unexpected amount or quantity of something, often in contexts related to sound, literature, or data.
Example: "The concert produced a surprising volume of sound, captivating the audience from the very first note."
Alternatives: "an unexpected amount" or "a remarkable quantity".
In 2002, the Aperture Foundation brought out a charming and surprising volume, "Other Animals: Drawings and Journals by Merce Cunningham," which did more along these lines.
Each entrance allows for a specific journey through the space, characterized by color, light, and irregular shapes with surprising volumes". .
This was a novel finding, but not a surprising one, as volume-effectiveness associations have been found in nursing home care [ 61], and it is well known that adequate rehabilitation of hip fracture patients improves effectiveness significantly [ 62, 63].
The low-density ceramic particles represent a surprising proportion of the volume of the material but still only contribute 25% to the weight.
The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship.
It turns out that this new volume provides a surprising roadmap to the development of Sontag's thinking.
In fact Raghubir and Krishna (1999) concluded that the eye can fool the stomach, perhaps not a surprising conclusion as the estimation of volume and the associated weight are complex calculations.
For a volume mostly focused on ideas, his book contains a surprising amount of musical insight, though perhaps not quite as much as its rather technical title might lead one to expect.
The results demonstrated the existence of an AD subpopulation with a surprising property of the increased intracerebral and whole brain volumes.
The volume of the earth had been fixed to a surprising degree of accuracy in the ancient period.
