How To Use Scale In A Sentence

Forbes: In terms of scale, the size of a bank for lending, is there a point where being bigger does not make you more efficient in lending? Transcript: Richard Bove
The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
Since the extra energy being transferred from one molecule to the next changes the way each absorbs and emits light, the flow of energy can be followed through optical spectroscopy, resolved on a femtosecond timescale.
Save for a worktable placed almost exactly in the center of the floor, I see only a few benches, some unlit rush lamps, a large set of scales, and a wooden crate, which I discover upon examination contains small crystal vials waiting to be filled. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Some find it repugnant, others see them as casualties in an undeclared war that is greatly preferable to the alternative of full-scale conflict. Times, Sunday Times

To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
Relying too much on markets for either input supplies or sales outlets places the low unit cost of production that comes with economies of scale at risk.
At the other end of the social scale were the king and a tiny group of powerful men, all of them rentiers who lived in style on the revenues of their great estates.
The French and Dutch results were punishment for political failure on a grand scale.
You have to understand the scale of the problem. The Sun
In its scale and some of its details Smith's building has an affinity to Richardson's 1875-1876 Hayden Building in Boston.
I have rated them on a scale of zero to four stars.
Increasing technological application and innovation in manufacturing industries result in more specialisation and distribution of processes on a global scale.
I've been using the kitchen balance scale and must have miscounted the total of the little brass weights.
Watch our expert show you an example of jamming in an Ab major scale in this free video clip on music theory.
Eggs were labeled with a permanent marker, candled to estimate the stage of development, weighed to the nearest 0.5 g using a spring scale, and measured (length and width) to the nearest 0.1 mm with calipers.
This is not a full-scale spending review because of uncertainties about the medium-term economic outlook. Times, Sunday Times
On a global scale, 77% of energy is created from fossil fuels.
This initially meant they were loath to adopt a reportage style, preferring empty streets and unobscured buildings, with people represented only to provide an area of scale or as pure portraiture.
Biogeography and comparative phylogeography differ in their potential to explain incongruent patterns, owing to the disparate time scales.
They're not going to be making much at the lower end of the scale. Times, Sunday Times
However, at the other end of the scale the worst site was at Ballybeg which had been a problem for a long time.
It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and ‘beaming,’ and is configurable to an unlimited number of options.
Maximum assembling is the core of the design of the railway passenger station capacity and scale.
If the instrumentation is more sparse, the music is no less symphonic in its scale and approach than we would hope.
Certain heat treatments alter the fine-scale structure of steel, creating a "phase" known as bainite - which has been known about since the 1930s. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
The SF - 36 dimension representing role limitations due to emotional problems was dichotomised for analysis, since the original scale contains only four values.
He declined to give details on who the passengers were except to say they were from a nursing home in Bellaire, an upscale enclave within Houston.
A recent study by the Aid agency Care illustrates the scale of the West's neglect.
Enfin pourrait-on dire, l´occident, après des décennies de surdité, en vient lentement à combattre ce fléau criminel économique qui gangrène autant le développement de l´Afrique qu´il engraisse l´illégalité fiscale en Europe et de par le monde. Global Voices in English » Paris court investigates three African leaders
God is thus responsible for bringing into being the large-scale structure of the universe.
The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.
The flesh should have some redness, the eyes should gleam and the scales feel slightly slimy. Times, Sunday Times
They rebuilt the house on an even more lavish scale than before.
There have been concerns raised that on such a scale, the shark is at serious risk of becoming an endangered species.
Chains with more marketing clout, economies of scale and smarter ways of responding to rising costs are edging out smaller chains or those that fail to attract choosier customers. Hamburgers, Fries and a Shakeout
They look good and we're in the process now of trying to scale up the capability of the manufacturers to be able to make enough of this so that we would be able to have a reasonable stockpile.
Higher external scores on the Rotter scale have been found to correlate with higher depression scores.
A gong, cymbals, a triangle, and a timpani, as well as the pentatonic scale, create a sense of the Far East.
Official figures show the scale of the implant rupturing problem. The Sun
I am not saying you are doing anything wrong here legally, you have the blessings of Mayor Tremblay after all, but there is a history of large scale projects going "overbudget" in this city. Walking Turcot Yards
In this context the survivors in the UK electricity market will continue to scrabble for scale.
Now I would be guessing, but is it to do with the generally shorter timescales between the beginning of the proceedings and a hearing date arriving?
The design and scale of the proposed development is a separate issue.
Basically I just relearnt all the stuff from when I was 6 - not even scales or anything, just little tunes and only just beginning to play with both hands together. Sheepdip Diary Entry
But the calcium scale produced when conditioned water is heated will still produce scum with soap, and will not dissolve existing scale.
Under that scale, brown is measured as dark grey, whereas shades of rust and buff are lighter grey.
A series of molecules that Bennett has developed are unique because they have the potential to yield insulated nano-scale wires.
Salary scales vary between states/from state to state/according to state/with each state.
The map, on a scale of 1:10,000, shows over 5,000 individual paths.
Seeing that China's construction of market economy has its elementary scale, we should enact law of bankruptcy so as to bring the law into full effect.
The dichotomy between “forwardness” and “backwardness” is a scale constructed and enforced by the civilizer to validate his civilizing/colonial project. Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal
But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale.
Prior to European settlement (pre-1850), a wide variety of disturbances characterized the region, ranging from frequent small-scale and localized events such as treefall gaps to rare, large-scale events such as stand-replacing fires and epizootic outbreaks. Eastern Cascades forests
It also has led us to rethink the notion of naturalness and the rock solid expectation this used to lead to, of finding new physics just beyond the electroweak scale. Two cheers for string theory
Since Active Directory can scale to hundreds of thousands or even millions of objects, it's necessary to carve up the Active Directory database into sections, called naming contexts.
Pollution could cause changes to weather patterns on a global scale.
The total cost structure of any business is likely to be scaled to the size of its largest resource. MANAGING FOR RESULTS
Mr Wilkinson was of the opinion that since water treatment equipment had been installed only recently, there were likely to have been corrosion and a build up of scale over the years inside the pipe work.
The rocks are deformed into kilometre-scale monoclinal folds, the axes of which plunge moderately to steeply north northwest.
A rather odd thing has just just occurred in the life of nerdy high school student Peter Parker; after being bitten by a radioactive spider, his body chemistry is mutagenically altered in that he can scale walls and ceilings, and he develops a "spider-sense" that warns him of approaching danger. Listal promoted
This was approximately one fifth full size, but was a working mock-up rather than a true scale model.
The scaleup has been made largely possible by rising donations and falling price for drugs, which have plummeted from 10,000 dollars to 300 dollars per person per year in three years. ANC Daily News Briefing
Lots of times words get perverted, too -- computer scientists who talk of "synchronous processes" have no idea what the actual definition in English of "synchronous" is -- they think it means "synchronized" -- and when they call putting millions of transistors on a tiny chip and call it Very Large Scale Integration, they're turned the phrase "large scale" on its very head. My mechanic Steve
In view of this, previously proposed timescales for evolutionary events may need to be reassessed.
Home builders have almost abandoned building homes for first-time buyers and moved upscale to attract all-cash buyers.
A full-scale riot was prevented by the timely intervention of the police.
The disparity is played out on a bigger scale between cities. Times, Sunday Times
Probably he felt an attempt to demonstrate the scale of Flaubert's achievement would be otiose and would, in any case, take up too much space in a short essay devoted to another topic.
The figures are always startlingly lifelike, yet never precisely to scale and always altered in some way.
But the combination of natural materials imparts warmth to the space, which is comfortably scaled.
They learned to dress and pack the catch, their clothes crusted with scales, the boards of the shanty slick with gurry beneath their feet. AMAGANSETT
Another source of energy that is needed in medium - and large-scale plants is diesel fuel required for operating forklifts which is estimated at one litre per ton of final product. Chapter 10
Golub, whose large-scale paintings drew inspiration from everything from Greek kouroi to images of male pornography, used a technique that was more sculpture than brushstroke, famously using a meat cleaver to create aggressive peaks on the canvas. Home | The New York Observer
The other reason cuts on this scale have been possible is that the government has hidden behind Darling's tax increases, arguing fatuously that it should receive credit for keeping them in place. Tax cuts for high earners make no sense – give them to those on low incomes
The new scale is being introduced in June next year and will affect the weight a three-year-old will receive in races of ten furlongs and above. Times, Sunday Times
And it's on a human scale - you can walk from one side to the other without any more problems than a whacking great hill normally presents.
Given the ungraciousness of this approach, the response from Sargent was on the lower end of the nuclear scale.
How can anyone say that a scalene and an equilateral are really the same "kind"! May 16th, 2009
Through its use of color and light, the building celebrates a child's sense of joy and fresh discovery and is perfectly scaled for its young users.
On the clapometer scale it was somewhere between the closing credits of Countdown and a wet Thursday at Hove cricket ground. Radio catchup: The Doctor Who Prom and Cabin Pressure
Here is the power spectrum: amount of anisotropy as a function of angular scale (really multipole moment l), with large scales on the left and smaller scales on the right. WMAP results — cosmology makes sense!
Developers buy old, unused, dilapidated hotels and redevelop them into brand new upscale luxury condos.
It's a betrayal of promises on a grand scale, and all the worse for being a betrayal of the poorest people in the world.
Beneficiaries often have to submit to small scale victimisation and invasions of their privacy if they are to keep their benefit.
The scale of your map is one inch to the mile.
A sober brick building, unpretentious in scale and design, lies modestly low among lawns at the end of a road with playing fields on either side.
One could resent being nannied on this scale, but it's good to know you're in a car that cares. Times, Sunday Times
The downscale springs are marvelously unsupervised, especially at night.
Next to the table was a scale with a steel tray hanging underneath its clocklike face. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
Will drunk college students attempt to scale the seven metre structure?
It was at this time that he divided the scale into 43 microtones - there are 12 semitone intervals in a traditional chromatic scale - and began inventing instruments that could play his new microtonal music.
A gong, cymbals, a triangle, and a timpani, as well as the pentatonic scale, create a sense of the Far East.
Col1a1-Krm2 mice is associated with an accumulation of non-mineralized osteoid (stained in red, scale bars, 100 µm). doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0010309.g008 PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes.
Responses to each of the items on the scale are given a score of between zero and three.
Light drug users also had increased scores on the Compulsive scale, which suggests increased conformity to social norms.
The milli - to picosecond time scales gave important information on chemical reactions. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
Currently, stem cells have been characterized mainly through traditional low-resolution karyotypic analyses, which can only identify large scale aneuploidies over 5 MB in size. THE MEDICAL NEWS
If not, it will be necessary for it to rework and downscale, or possibly even to abandon, the project.
Aviator shades are still flying high on the fashion scale, so find a pair that suits you best.
Fish bones and scales and cat skulls have also been found.
Sales, filing and clerical work would be scaled back dramatically. Times, Sunday Times
The figures for an electric hob, by the way, were off the scale. Times, Sunday Times
Often, the muscles used to maintain body posture are affected, namely the muscles in the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle, including the upper trapezius, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, levator scapulae, and quadratus lumborum.
He's made a scale model of the Eiffel Tower.
Progressively, larger objects substantially increase the timescale for collapse over still longer wavelengths.
Does anybody think that the larger the scale of event, the more people will have these types of experiences?
He smoked cannabis on an industrial scale.
It is a rare company that has Internet-scale web apps with racks of servers and yet lacks the resources to administrate them such that it would justify an appliance as a shortcut. Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery
For the asset purchase program to be effective, it must be done on a very large scale," Neel Kashkari, the Treasury's top TARP official, said in a speech last week.
“There is still room to change at the small scale,” said an AIDS activist, sipping juice in a teashop. Global Voices in English » Myanmar: New policy requires HIV groups to register
On the scale of media-freak-out irrationality, superbugs have more credibility than the Large Hadron Collider apocalypse, for example, but they're not even up there with swine flu.
Fish are amphibian bearcat animals that are about ectothermic (previously cold-blooded), covered with scales, and able with two sets of commutual fins and several unpaired fins. MyLinkVault Newest Links
Methods of predicting machine life has systematically summarized with the emphasis on those which use theoretical analysis to substitute large scale prototype experiments.
We urgently need to build a solidarity movement on the scale of those against South African apartheid and the Vietnam War in the past.
On a scale of 1 to 10, he scores 7.
It has been well documented that the U.S. and the EU are dumping onto international markets on a wide scale.
Three large-scale agricultural schemes, launched by private companies, all failed.
The fine-grained assemblage is dominated by tabular, low-density elements, such as cycloid scales and fish vertebrae. Archive 2008-04-01
With the sustained and steady economic growth in China, China's urbanization has stepped into the stage of full-scale acceleration, said Chinese Vice Minister of Construction Qiu Baoxing Tuesday.
I get a yellow tint to my grayscale gradations (mainly in the lighter areas).
An extra arm placed off-centre wouldn't do, you see, but Medusa-style hair of snakes would be fine (so long as it was balanced by a single of similar scale - say, a large beard).
By this time we were well into an election year, with Ronald Reagan beginning to close in on the Republican nomination and Ted Kennedy launching a full-scale challenge for the Democratic nomination. The Good Fight
So far, we've made nanoscale lasers, photodetectors, and ribbons that serve as flexible sub-wavelength optical waveguides.
The corresponding files are small in size and can be scaled at any resolution without losses.
Evidently neither Bull Connor, the segregationist police commissioner of Birmingham, nor the merchants expected this quiet beginning to blossom into a large-scale operation.
Store operation will be a large scale baking business model and in the meantime act as a quick access to the city main business district and upscale communities.
We retool each year just to change the design of cars… surely we can do the same, albeit on a grander scale, to shift more commuters to public transit.
My favorite fishing knife is a yellow handle Case XX with a thin, pointed blade, hook hone, bottle opener, scaler and hook remover. On Favorite Fishing Knives
Results have shown no significant difference between the 2 operations: 75% for scalenectomy without rib resection and 70% for scalenectomy with rib resection.
The Romanian government yesterday unveiled a new, scaled-down security force.
Exasperated, Emma went herself one evening to the spot where Collymore rigged his scales on the limb of a sea grape.
If you want the result in b&w, choose the "grayscale" option when scanning -- it is slightly better. Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals
Why should it be this emotional scale (as opposed to joy vs. pain, or pride vs. envy) whose expressions are subject to positive-to-negative inversion?
The four basic physiological components of fitness are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being excellent.
Social distance can be expressed as a series of questions constituting a rating scale.
The aerodynamic forces generated by rigid and flexible geometrically scaled hawkmoth wings were measured.
The thieves had scaled two fences and dragged the pup out of her locked kennel and lifted her over the walls, leaving two less valuable dogs behind.
A larger-scale version of the sextet of spirits which closes act I, act IV moves with the quickness and confusedness of a full Mozartian concerted finale. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
Ossein pretreated for a 2weeks period exhibited the maximum % yield incase of bone gelatin, while the yield from intact skin was higher than that realized incase of de-scaled skin.
When large-scale resistance movements remain grassroots they are thus indestructible.
The amount of sky covered is typically measured in oktas, eighths of sky cover, a non-linear scale.
This result is a particular problem for rating scales, which tend to be cross sectional, rather than longitudinal, in character.
In fact, it can exhibit ordered structures with length scales ranging from micrometers to nanometers.
The logarithmic scale of the fresh mass and the linear scale of the dry mass together show how the initially exponential growth changes gradually into linear.
It was thought at the time that a full scale legal cadastre was a fundamental requirement, so the program was shelved.
French technique meets Japanese elegance around a traditional garden at the upscale Tetsuya's, where there is just one coveted degustation menu. Sydney: Autumn in Oz
By the age of 21 he had already scaled the heights in the academic world.
Musical literacy requires knowledge of major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals and triad spelling.
It produces a greyscale image and can refresh in about a second - far too slow to display moving images.
Barring miracle remission on a continental scale, only aggressive, coordinated medical relief, public health programs and public information campaigns squelch epidemics.
In the title story, a man loses a galosh on a tram and scales the mountains of Soviet bureaucracy to reclaim it, but misplaces his other galosh on the way.
He said he used the scales to weigh drugs before buying them.
A quick command displays the scale factor for the selected viewport.
At the macroscopic scale, samples held in test-tubes spontaneously demix under the influence of gravity into a top isotropic phase and a bottom birefringent nematic phase.
What train of wives and concubines was ever so ignominiously placed as the extra husbands carried among the scales of the careful female cirriped, lest she lose one or two! Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
This company is by Beijing Traffic department, Beijing transports the tube department, the industry and commerce tax affairs to authorize the be established large-scale Transport company.
There occurs in great numbers a species of small Pecten, -- some of the specimens scarce larger than a herring scale; a minute Ostrea, a sulcated Terebratula, an Isocardia, a Pullastra, and groups of broken serpulæ in vast abundance. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
We begin by modifying the photo to create an image which is amenable to analysis: calculations of box dimension require a completely black and white image - no greyscale is allowed.
The answers were transformed to an ordinal scale with values from 0 to 6.
Aileron: the scale covering the base of primaries in some insects; see tegulae in Diptera = alula and squama, q.v. Air-sacs or vesicles: pouch-like expansions of tracheal tubes in heavy insects, capable of inflation and supposed to lessen specific gravity. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
With two trombonists, they have a characteristic full sound down low on the music scale.
To Spilsby this morning, to fetch linctus, lemons and honey for Graham, who has now developed a full-scale summer cough.
Small hard-skinned fish such as snappers, grouper, breams and hind should be gutted and scaled on capture and kept in slurry.
That isolation along with a lack of funding for extensive aerial and ground surveys translate to light monitoring - nothing near the scale and intensity aimed at ducks.
Although the adult doesn't look much like a scale, the nymph and pupa do.
This was approximately one fifth full size, but was a working mock-up rather than a true scale model.
Several other typical mesophytic forest species, both shade-intolerant and shade-tolerant, have declined, perhaps due to an absence of large-scale disturbance needed for their regeneration.
Funes says that "dollarization" and the adoption of the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2006 have had negative effects such as inflation and unfavorable competition for small-scale farmers but that it is too late to scrap these policies. CounterPunch
Only customer samples are available now, with full-scale production commencing in Q3, the company admitted.
Major climate-related species distributions at the large scale include the limit of trees, which is associated with the isoline for mean July air temperatures of about 10 °C [3] (as discussed in [4]) and soil temperature of 7 °C [5], and the limit of woody plants such as dwarf shrubs that are one indicator of the boundary of the polar desert biome [6]. Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges
As a Quaternary and glacial geomorphologist, I agree that geological training is important to understand climate and associated landscape change over long timescales. Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit
One wonders what treasures may still remain buried and undiscovered, such is the awesome scale of the place.
What tipped the scale in Thorpe's favor were his sterling performances in major international meets.
This morning I'd allowed my gazing into space to modulate into a full-scale reverie, and I'd lost track completely.
I would say that over the years they will have more artesian wells and will bring in irrigation on a wider scale.
There is also large-scale downstream pollution caused by long-distance transport of industrial food.
Development of improved models to predict field-scale dispersion is a continuing area of research.
On their own they will not have a huge impact on symptoms, but they will help to reduce the appearance of scale and redness, they help to hydrate the skin and can soothe itch if present.
It was concluded that a higher VB2 content in the host plant in some degree was benefit to the scale insect occurring greatly in the polluted city environment.
They won't sanction our spending on this scale.
After that came a fine example of chu-toro (No. 2 on the sushi-snob toro scale, above maguro and below the hyperdelicate o-toro), which Seki flavored with a mild wasabi sauce.
Problems for students caused by differences in grading scales used at post-secondary education institutions around Alberta may finally have a remedy.
And next August, the Ripken World Series will be played in Aberdeen on a scale replica of Camden Yards, Ripken's home ballpark.
There's a treatment system in place to descale it. Times, Sunday Times
I took a deep breath, when the proctor asked me if I wanted to do my solo, scales or sight reading first.
It is only comparatively recently that the scale and significance of the Sterkfontein deposits have begun to be fully appreciated.
There are numerous other examples of such physical problems that can cause decreasing returns to scale. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
The Lord Christ is placing before us a pair of scales, and on one side of the balances is laid the whole world.
It was a job of the utmost precision, and even a large-scale blow-up might not reveal that it was not genuine.
This suffered presenter overload on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times
You do end up spending more than you would on a pint and a burger but you get refined upscale cuisine for a relatively downscale price.
A fourth scale tapped use of specialized resources: archives, special collections, microforms, and CD-ROM databases.
Man is such a small dot in the scale of time. Times, Sunday Times
The use of large-scale wind tunnels to improve aerodynamics is restricted, and teams will be required to close their factories for six weeks. Times, Sunday Times
Many industries developed their own very specific scales designed to weigh particular items.
With some notable exceptions, modem developments along the Thames have failed to respond to the scale of the river and wide flat sweep of the estuary landscape.
But why do we have to limit our measurements to the immediate scale of revenue and cost, think long run as the positive effect will go on for quite nonending period. BusinessWeek.com --
What is the appropriate measure of scale difference between industrial activities?

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