What is the largest lake in the world? Compare this to 'the biggest lake'. To my mind, the largest is the one with the greatest surface area, the biggest may have a smaller surface area but be deeper and therefore contain more water...and be 'bigger'. Of course, one could just as well assign the other way..but there IS a distinction. I think.
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If you're loosely grouping batteries on say a five-point scale, 'from smaller to larger' conveys this rather better than 'from smallest to largest', which implies an accurate ordering. On Ludwig.com: 'The phrase "from smaller to bigger" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it any time you want to demonstrate a progression from a lower size/amount/value to a greater one. For ...
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The largest share of the region's cost estimate total belongs to projects classified as "long term", which accounts for 9% of the region's projects and 47% of the region's cost estimate total. While the statements above are numerically accurate and precise, I feel they are a bit clunky and bloated.
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"Largest single" is not incorrect (think "this is the largest single cell"), it just has a different meaning. But I cannot at the moment conceive of a sentence with "the largest single contributor to". Therefore, in your examples, "the largest single contributor to" seems incorrect, although the full context could prove me wrong.