A much smaller number of students passed than I had expected.

通过考试的学生比我预计的少得多。

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Smaller Numbers take a smaller number of bytes.

小的数值占用更小的字节。

youdao

Some Australians -though a smaller number -have made China their home.

也有一些澳大利亚人——虽然人数不多——在中国安了家。

youdao

"Russia deploys somewhere slightly above 2,200 strategic warheads today on a smaller number of strategic delivery vehicles estimated to be around 620.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

Because it was one small number to one slightly smaller number.

因为这不过是一个小值,和一个稍微更小的值的区别。

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It's just the number that was picked between 1 and 10 that's probably bigger than 5 or 6, not smaller.

它产生一个在1到10之间的数0,或者大于等于5或者6的数。

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Blakely aims to whittle 65 billing and 23 accounts-receivable systems down to a much smaller number.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

Better to do a more thorough job on a smaller number of key institutions.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Clustering is a complex way to get higher performance and capacity from a smaller number of servers.

FORBES: Magazine Article