small number

基本解释

Not a small number of Indians must die each year thanks to that collective refusal to be bothered.
而每年由这些集体性的“拒绝被打扰”心态间接杀死的印度人绝不是一个小数目。
The truth is often in a small number of people, but few people must obey the truth is most people, in most people's hand, parrot is piling up.
真理往往是在少数人手里，而少数人必须服从多数人，到头来真理还是在多数人手里，人云亦云就是这样堆积起来的。
As with any sudoku puzzle, a small number of the grid squares are given a value from the beginning by encouraging the bacteria in these squares to differentiate and take on one of the four colours.
对于任意数独谜题，方格面积是已给定的小数字，为了便于区分，实验者一开始就吸引细菌到这些方格里，让它们适应四色中的某一种颜色。

A small number of colleges -- perhaps about twenty nationally -- reject the traditional grading system.
You can either have a big number and a small decimal point or small number and a big decimal point.
可以小数点前面长，后面短,或者，前面短，后面长。
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That way you could deliver a small number of vectors and they could amplify into a large number of vectors.
这样你只需向细胞中转入少量载体,就能得到大量的拷贝
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Deep knowledge of a relatively small number of domains was required to manage these domains.
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