small number

Example Sentences

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Accordingly, he discerns that much of what passes for “AI alignment” is, in practice, a small number of San Francisco labs encoding their idiosyncratic values into systems that now shape billions of lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

However, Barron’s has argued that Micron and a small number of other chip companies remain undervalued due to their lasting earnings power.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Handy was born in New York and appeared in a string of films and TV shows over six decades, often as a supporting character or for a small number of episodes.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

Dudamel started the Youth Orchestra Los Angeles with a small number of school children in 2007, as soon as he was appointed music director and almost two years before he assumed the position.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Boyle, too, evidently thought there was only a small number of ‘more Catholic laws’, and these were the laws of nature properly so called.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton