a small number of

基本解釋

Not a small number of Indians must die each year thanks to that collective refusal to be bothered.
而每年由這些集體性的“拒絕被打擾”心態(tài)間接殺死的印度人絕不是一個小數(shù)目。
These fixes typically involve updates to a small number of application files and do not usually change application behavior or interfaces.
這些修復(fù)會對一小部分應(yīng)用程序文件進行更新，而通常不會更改應(yīng)用程序行為或接口。
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.
同樣的，每一個評估者僅僅會發(fā)現(xiàn)少量的可用性問題。因此，評估者僅僅只對他發(fā)現(xiàn)的可用性問題進行嚴重性評級是不夠的。

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.
這樣你只需向細胞中轉(zhuǎn)入少量載體,就能得到大量的拷貝
耶魯公開課 - 生物醫(yī)學(xué)工程探索課程節(jié)選
That is, if you are one of these commune communities, then you're just a small number of people.
即使是公社，集結(jié)成的也只是個小眾團體。
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選

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