I'd prefer to pay regularly in small amounts, rather than have a large amount to pay in one go.

我宁愿定期小额付款，也不愿一次性大额支付。

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With as much as a thousand tonnes of water passing through a turbine's blades in a single second, a relatively small device can create a relatively large amount of electricity.

因为多达1000吨的水在一秒内流过涡轮机的叶片，相对而言，小型设备可以产生大量电力。

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Portrait mode chooses a large aperture (a small 'f' number) which will make the depth of field (the amount of your shot in focus) smaller.

人像模式用一个大光圈(f值小)，而让景深(清晰对焦的那部分)变小。

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He rejected arguments that a "Shameless culture" was now part of British life, and said it was only a relatively small amount of people who were causing "a large proportion of problems in our society".

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In the case of IntelliCell, the company focuses more on producing large amounts of SVF cells from just a small amount of autologous fat cells of about 2 oz.

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But in all these scenarios, it seems as if there is an extremely small system that intends to learn a large amount, by trial and error.

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