SQL Server database backup file cannot restore - database

In SQL Server 2008, I have a database which exceeds 10GB in size. I cleaned up the database and took a backup from it. Backup file size is 160MB.
Once I try to restore this backup file to SQL Server 2008 R2, an error popups.
I have already done this process earlier with same server-different database.
But that database size was smaller.
Please help me to restore database.

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cannot restore database

whenever I try to restore a database I got an error message
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE
failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed
your licensed limit of 10240 MB per database.
(Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended)
because I am using SQL server express edition and the database size is more than 10GB.
I have the backup file only and I do not have access to reduce the data files
BTW data files are 20GBs.
is there a solution for this?
SQL Server Developer Edition is a free, unlimited edition of SQL Server for Development and Test purposes. You can download it here.
Not with SQL Express. Sign up for a Visual Studio subscription (free) and you can get a fully functional copy of SQL Server.
https://visualstudio.com/

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