Reduce gap between a figure and a paragraph

Question

I put 2 figures side by side as follows:

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \subfigure[a long sentence a]{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\textwidth]{figures/cells_time_23h29.eps}}
  \subfigure[a long sentence b]{%
    \includegraphics[width=0.23\textwidth]{figures/zones_time_23h29.eps}}
\end{figure}

I don't know if I accidentally added spaces somewhere, it seems that there is a big white gap between these 2 figures and the paragraph below them.

However, I really would like to save space. Could anyone tell me if there is something I am doing wrong? Otherwise, is there a way to manually reduce the gap?

Besides, if I remove the labels for the subfigures a long sentence a and a long sentence b, the gap does not reduce. So I guess there is always space reserved for the labels of the subfigures?

Please construct a compilable minimal working example (MWE) from \documentclass... until \end{document}. If you use the graphicx package I recommend using it in the MWE as follows \usepackage[demo]{graphicx} — masu, Nov 13 '13 at 23:47
You are putting a subfigure inside a subfigure. Also there is an open {%. Which package do you use? subcaption? — , Nov 14 '13 at 00:25
@HarishKumar sorry I should have deleted one more line, just updated OP... — SoftTimur, Nov 14 '13 at 01:06
@SoftTimur -- Try changing \subfigure[...]{...} into \subcaptionbox{...}{...}. Also see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/26522/34618 for reducing spaces. — Jesse, Nov 14 '13 at 03:26
@SoftTimur Check this answer. I've compared your example with [H] alignment (float package) to a simple figure and caption with [H] alignment. They look like the same that way. — masu, Nov 14 '13 at 07:28

Reduce gap between a figure and a paragraph

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