Dormitory buildings might house a small number of students or many hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

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

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Only a small number of them are signed into law.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

So there's a small number of firms and their actions affect each other.

少数几家公司的决策会互相影响

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

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

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

"It is a tax code that makes it all too easy for a small number of individuals and companies to abuse overseas tax havens to avoid paying any taxes at all,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

You know, my experience with this is, when you go from having a small number to a really large number of people, if you don't a process, it becomes real chaos.

我的经验是，公司的员工由很少,增长到很多，如果没有一个程序，很容易乱套。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

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

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

And then he answered it elegantly in a very small number of pages.

然后他给出了完美的回答,只用了很少的页数。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

This could explain why Taiwan has a large number of small earthquakes, but rarely a major one.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

And I've done fib of 5, which is a small number. If we look at some other things, for example, let's get rid of this.

我已经计算了fib，这是一个小数，如果我们看看其它的东西,例如，让我们放开这个。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

On-crop trees produce a large number of small fruit with little value.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

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

"And I don't think that's going to disappear by any finding of a limited review of a relatively-small number of ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

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

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