"There are concerns in most O.E.C.D.countries that the number of nurses is too small to respond to the demand.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

So what you get on the plate is many copies of the small number of plasmids that you've put in.

我们只要放入少量质粒,就能在培养基上得到大量的复制品

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

I think Lee identified a small number, but definitely some of them, that were lying about the date.

我想李指的只是一小部分公司,但是在期权发行日上做手脚,这种事情是绝对存在的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

One thing that happened was that after 1956, 1957 the number of cases were down, there was a small bump here, the cases were up.

一九五六年后发生了一件事,在一九五七年,病例的数量有所下降,但在这里却有一个很小的上扬,病例数量上升了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Another report on Thursday showed a small drop in the number of newly jobless workers last week.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

That's--that accounts for relatively small number of the overall cases of Type I Diabetes.

型糖尿病患者,占患者总人数的比率相对较小

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A small number of colleges -- perhaps about twenty nationally -- reject the traditional grading system.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

We don't know the real Socrates, all we know of Socrates is what we read in Plato and Aristophanes and a small number of others who have sketched various different pictures of him.

我们不认识真正的苏格拉底，所知的苏格拉底,是透过阅读柏拉图及亚里斯多芬尼斯,及其它少数作者,从不同角度的描绘。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

More broadly, many critics are asking why the debate is taking place at all, since it affects such a small number of women.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

So we looked at a number of fairly small programs that at the end of the day did very little more than print hello world and the like.

这堂课最后,如果我们只是看几个小程序，根本没啥用,还不如hello，world程序呢。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

While the results may be disappointing, proponents of testing say identifying even a small number of people is worth the effort because early treatment saves lives and can prevent the spread of HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

We know that the Mycenaeans, or at least some small number of them could write, because we have the Linear B script, which we can read. There is no clue that there is such a thing as writing in the Homeric poems.

我们知道迈锡尼人中,至少小部分,是会写作的,因为我们找到了B类线形文字的遗稿,我们能够解读,但在荷马史诗中,却并没有任何线索表明写作这一点

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Another thing is that most patients - And of those who were tested, only a small number were positive, even though the researchers tested 30 times more people than would normally be tested for HIV.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23