A small number – five, to be exact – have been bad.

一个小数目–确切地说是5–已经很糟了。

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Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.

18个人中5位女性是个小得可怜的数目。

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Only a small number of Kadare's books have been translated into English.

卡达莱的书只有一小部分被翻译成了英文。

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

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You can either have a big number and a small decimal point or small number and a big decimal point.

可以小数点前面长，后面短,或者，前面短，后面长。

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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

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Deep knowledge of a relatively small number of domains was required to manage these domains.

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You might have deep connections with a small number, and this is a good start.

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It said it was temporarily withdrawing a "small number" who work with Libyan ministries.

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