"large surprise" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a surprising event or situation that is particularly significant or overwhelming in its impact. Example: The announcement of the new project was met with a large surprise from the employees, who had not been expecting such a major change in the company's direction.
The Constitutional Court's decision on the Lisbon Treaty did not come as a large surprise.
The others being United and Chelsea, unless Tottenham spring a very large surprise with the Gareth Bale bounty.
Though sudden, this shouldn't be a large surprise.
According to the press release, Logitech is increasing its focus on mobile products and improving profitable in PC-related products, which shouldn't come as a large surprise.
Nor do women expect that the pizza delivery boy will be packing a large surprise underneath that large pizza, even if the order does just so happen to be a meat lover's pizza.
To give credit where it is due, there is something at least theoretically ingenious in the way Jacobson re-engineers the love plots from the original so as to bring about his own large surprises.
The larger surprise, not least to Mr Blair himself, is that the other two pillars have collapsed as well.
Or consider San Francisco, which has the largest (surprise!) proportion of voters in the state who decline to state their political preferences when they register.
The numbers offered some hope, but investors said it would take a much larger surprise to build optimism as traders await the Labor Department's monthly report on unemployment, which comes out on Friday.
Perhaps the largest surprise is that there has been more net insurance purchased against defaults by France — a country that still has a AAA bond rating — than against defaults by either Italy or Spain.
The second, larger surprise is that Microsoft's iPad competitor, the bet-the-farm, nothing-more-important-than-this, post-PC tablet proposition is called – wait for it – Windows RT.
