a small number of

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。
These fixes typically involve updates to a small number of application files and do not usually change application behavior or interfaces.
这些修复会对一小部分应用程序文件进行更新，而通常不会更改应用程序行为或接口。
Also, each evaluator will only find a small number of the usability problems, so a set of severity ratings of only the problems found by that evaluator will be incomplete.
同样的，每一个评估者仅仅会发现少量的可用性问题。因此，评估者仅仅只对他发现的可用性问题进行严重性评级是不够的。

A small number of colleges -- perhaps about twenty nationally -- reject the traditional grading system.
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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That is, if you are one of these commune communities, then you're just a small number of people.
即使是公社，集结成的也只是个小众团体。
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ABT-418 in a small number of patients with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, with promising results.
ECONOMIST: Great drug, shame about the delivery system