Exporting out of Pages to PDF results in large files

I frequently have to post files for my students to download in PDF. Many of these things are worksheets or outlines that have no pictures on them whatsoever. I've noticed recently that older things that I have exported from MS Word on the PC were significantly smaller than the things I'm currently exporting from Pages. One recent comparison had an old MS Word export at 52Kb and a recent pages export at 135Kb.
Could the font I am using and embedding be effecting this? Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere?
I feel like I'm using up a lot of space a lot of bandwidth unnecessarily by posting bigger files. Any help that anybody can provide would be greatly appreciated.

I created a 2 page, 877 word document (copied the text from here) in Arial and made a Pages and Word for Mac copy. I deleted the Pages Sections.
Test sizes
Pages (blank portrait WP template): 126,006 bytes
Pages (above with sections deleted): 97,541 bytes
Pages pdf : 24,751 bytes
Word .doc: 34,304 bytes
Word .docx: 144,575 bytes
Word pdf: 33,692 bytes
The worst case is .docx and a Word pdf is almost 50% larger than a Pages pdf, which is itself 2/3rds the size of a native .doc file.
Peter

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PDF 1.x embeds the font data to be drawn in the document after stripping and subsetting the intelligent font on disk. If you want to share graphic appearance, then PDF is generally a good idea.
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PDF 1.x does not embed ('encode') the input of characters, PDF 1.x embeds ('encodes') glyphs from which characters are inferred if the POST table in the intelligent font has the font-independent glyph identifiers for TrueType fonts from which characters can be inferred, or, if a PostScript font is used, if correct font-independent glyph identifiers were used in the PostScript name array.
PDF 1.x also does not necessarily embed ('encode') logical content information that defines a concept of 'tables', 'columns' and more as extractable blocks of copy.
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Subsetting and stripping of intelligent fonts is done in a higher system level service than streaming into PS, so the suggestion that streaming into PS solves anything, though sometimes found in user fora, is not a sound one, "It (font subsetting, ed) is happening WAY BEFORE it hits PS - it is done up in Quartz and the PDF generator so the pdf->ps component is already getting subset fonts," Leonard Rosenthol in 2003, Adobe PDF Standards Architect since 2006.
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