The phrase "an overwhelming volume" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large quantity of something that is difficult to manage or comprehend.
Example: "The team received an overwhelming volume of applications for the position, making the selection process quite challenging."
Alternatives: "a massive amount" or "a tremendous quantity".
In the comments, which were reported anonymously, the judges spoke of an overwhelming volume of cases with insufficient time for careful review, a shortage of law clerks and language interpreters, and failing computers and equipment for recording hearings.
Even as police and prosecutors amass what they characterize as an overwhelming volume of evidence against Mr. Taylor and his accomplice, Craig Godineaux, law enforcement officials acknowledge that they have gained little insight into what motivated the cold viciousness of the murders, aside from the pair's concession that they had sought to eliminate all witnesses.
The non-profit organization started investigating the drug after it became clear that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was receiving an overwhelming volume of reports of adverse affects from patients.
At the time, the government said it was the result of an overwhelming volume of traffic, adding that "there is no evidence to suggest malign intervention".
The cheese pretty much covered up the smell, so it wasn't until I bit into the sandwich that I tasted an overwhelming volume of roast pork's signature smell.
Said Henry: "Once we developed the idea we found there was an overwhelming volume of cases, the best ones were the ones that really had a lot of unanswered questions, but they also had to be of diverse backgrounds".
But in May and June she saw something different: an "almost overwhelming volume" of calls and sales driven largely by interest in apartments ranging from $3 million to $6 million — what Ms. Lenz calls the "middle market" in Manhattan.
Such medical breakthroughs can generate an enormous, and occasionally overwhelming, volume of new information to be assimilated; misinformation and exaggeration should be avoided.
Old hands suggest a simple strategy to cope with the overwhelming volume of furniture, which can range from a 19th-century antique to a 1960's reproduction dining room set: set a budget for the type of furniture desired and stick to it, no matter how frenzied the bidding.
Temple describes her world as one of sensations heightened, sometimes, to an excruciating degree (and inhibited, sometimes to annihilation): she speaks of her ears, at the age of two or three, as helpless microphones, transmitting everything, irrespective of relevance, at full, overwhelming volume — and there was an equal lack of modulation in all her senses.
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