In terms of numbers, 46 is a very small sample.
The following list is only a small sample of his work.
"All I need to do is take a small sample of your blood."
All that information in just a small sample of hair!
Less than 2.5K people feels like a rather small sample to me.
Other samples, not all that small, are already in view.
Today will be just a small sample of everything we have planned for the days to come.
But a small sample for comparison is better than nothing at all.
He asked for a small sample and ran it in the newspaper.
The table below gives a small sample of the suggested name changes.