Example sentences of "[adv] down the scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they did not reach the very poorest , they went further down the scale than most model buildings , and provided the sort of accommodation the poor were used to , despite the introduction of a guardian and a gate to keep the transients at bay and the tenants up to scratch . |
| 2 | So that either means providing it , or something further down the scale . |
| 3 | Lower down the scale comes the offence of possessing an offensive weapon without lawful authority or excuse , contrary to the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 . |
| 4 | There will not be much re-nationalisation , for example , and the top rate of tax will not be as high as it was under Mr Healey ( although it will start much lower down the scale ) . |
| 5 | There will be at least three , and perhaps four , spaces to fill ; so there will also be an influx of new faces lower down the scale . |
| 6 | ‘ It illustrates the gulf that is developing and the problems clubs lower down the scale have keeping themselves viable on a full-time basis . |
| 7 | In their turn , the stronger and financially sounder tenant farmers , or lairds , would extract money and labour from those a step lower down the scale . |
| 8 | Greek images were also used by physiognomists and ethnologists when they began to create racist classification systems which placed the Greek profile as the highest development of humanity , above Jewish people with African peoples lower down the scale , represented so as to approximate their profiles with those of primates and apes at the bottom . |