The phrase "a volume of a" is not correct and usable in written English as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could be used in contexts discussing measurements, quantities, or specific volumes of items, but it needs to be completed for clarity.
Example: "The scientist measured a volume of a liquid for the experiment."
Alternatives: "a quantity of" or "an amount of".
(Some gross less, some more; there's an outlet in Brooklyn that is expected to have a volume of a million a year).
While that first novel was, as he put it, "being rejected everywhere in New York," he landed a gig ghost-writing a volume of a popular horror series for teenagers.
The predicted maximum defect size in a volume of a fatigue specimen reasonable corresponds to the size of defect observed on the fracture surface of failed specimen.
Waiting for the dogs to dawdle in from the garden, I picked up a volume of A La Recherche and was utterly blown away by the description of a party where the Duke of Guermantes is distributing varying degrees of largesse, his outstretched hand swimming through the room like a "shark fin".
Dr Bayley and his colleagues printed artificial versions of this arrangement: tiny droplets of an aqueous solution, each with a volume of a few trillionths of a litre, were sprayed into oil in order to pick up a fatty coat.On its own an individual droplet, even one with a fatty coating, is rather dull.
Maximum intensity projection (MaxIP) is a rendering tool that extracts a volume of a contrast-enhanced anatomical structure that is then displayed as an angiography study.
The parity of a stereogenic atom is calculated as a volume of an oriented tetrahedron.
Figure 1 shows views of an OCT volume of a young healthy subject and a volume of an elderly patient with ocular pathology.
He has also published a volume of poetry, A Glass Half Full.
The editing of Auden, which has been such a success, has proceeded at its own grand pace: a volume of plays, a volume of libretti, a short volume of juvenilia (always fascinating) and two large volumes, so far, of prose.
