Example sentences of "[adv] on the scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it that you may actually have lost fat but the loss may not show much on the scales because you are retaining water . |
| 2 | But Norman Lamont , the Chancellor , will insist this is normal procedure and any cuts are not necessarily on the scale of those mentioned in the guidelines . |
| 3 | And not merely on the scale of a palace . |
| 4 | In the peacetime years of the Third Reich , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ did not rank prominently on the scale of priorities of most of the German population . |
| 5 | There have been several protest meetings in the city every day this week , though not on the scale of the Prague protest . |
| 6 | There have been several protest meetings in the city every day this week , though not on the scale of the Prague protest . |
| 7 | Our duels were not on the scale of the later Clarke versus Prescott battles , where in the 1987 general election I saw a television chairman leave his chair several times to restore order . |
| 8 | The slate is still worked but not on the scale of former times , Welsh slate having monopolized the roofing market in the Victorian age . |
| 9 | While these problems are not on the scale found in Zambia , they are becoming more acute . |
| 10 | The level of US aid is not on the scale of that provided for El Salvador , but it has still risen six-fold since the beginning of the 1980s to US$82 million in 1986 . |
| 11 | There is evidence at many points around the continent that more rock is exposed today than in the immediately recent past , and that there were several retreats during the present interglacial ( Péwé , 1960 ) , though not on the scale of the northern retreat . |
| 12 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 13 | and you find that you just slipped up on the scale or even on the calculating your table because you just , Oh this is easy this is easy . |
| 14 | You got ta , se when you go up on the scales you 've got ta er say eight ten to ma he carried two pound overweight so you 've got ta put him at the scale and then the end of , the governor relies on the travel head lad to do this , the same as I 'm head man at home . |
| 15 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 16 | very light on the pocket as well on the scales , the Odyssey is nevertheless well made and strongly put together . |
| 17 | The Cretaceous period , in which they thrived but which was also marked by accelerated evolutionary trends that would ultimately make them extinct , is long even on the scale geologists use to measure history — 70 million years . |
| 18 | Furthermore , our perceptions of the behaviour of these subsystems depend strongly on the scale at which they are observed . |
| 19 | I suspect that the proposition that broadly the price of housing will rise at least as fast as inflation could only be falsified if some pestilence almost on the scale of the black death were to occur so that supply vastly exceeded demand or significantly exceeded demand . |
| 20 | The X spin-offs are not quite on the scale of the Batman trinkets , mags and furniture put out by Time Warner . |
| 21 | No matter where on the scale you are , you almost certainly share experiences with the other folk trying to change their shape and their health . |
| 22 | Then I could measure the speed of the wind inside me and know where on the scale I was in general located . |
| 23 | In the 1990S it was the end of the road that started with living on credit like everyone else on the scale of everyone else , became slightly more extended than most and then wholly unmanageable . |
| 24 | Helping the balance of payments could weigh more heavily on the scales of decision-making than this country 's reputation as the universal nuclear rubbish bin . |
| 25 | We are the inheritors of a political culture that does not have a history of mass street action : civil disobedience , yes , but never on the scale of the American civil rights movement . |
| 26 | Intimate music-making by amateurs must have been practised much earlier , but never on the scale made possible by the invention of printing . |