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Example sentences for "small scale"

  • I pay ready cash for all that is brought to me, but I only do in that way on a small scale.

  • Does that not show that fishermen curing on a small scale on their own behalf might realize higher prices if they could cure equally well with the large curers?

  • Is it not possible for a fish-curer beginning business on a small scale, to carry on his business without any capital at all, or almost without capital?

  • Do you think fishermen could cure for themselves upon a small scale?

  • We see the same effects produced on a small scale, when snow is transformed into a snowball between the hands.

  • In what respects, then, did these early representative institutions differ from the modern conception as a reproduction of the people on a small scale?

  • But the experiment is on such a small scale, and has been conducted for such a short time, that the result can hardly be expected to be conclusive as yet.

  • Again there is no evidence whatever that movements of the land have anything to do with the historic cycles of climate or with the cycles of weather in our own day, which seem to be the same as glacial cycles on a small scale.

  • Hence it seems advisable to investigate whether any of the climatic phenomena of the past may have arisen from an intensification of the solar conditions which now appear to give rise to similar phenomena on a small scale.

  • The high waves produced by the severe storms must have had a similar effect on a small scale.

  • Thus it appears that both on a large and on a small scale pulsations of climate are the rule.

  • Perhaps the most satisfactory way of blanching early celery on a small scale is by means of ordinary farm drain tiles of about 4 inches inside diameter, placed over the plants after they have become almost fully grown.

  • The most common method for blanching celery on a small scale is that of banking with soil, and it is by this means that the finest flavor can be obtained.

  • It is not profitable to transplant beets; it may be done on a small scale, but it is too expensive to practice on a large scale.

  • For early blanching on a small scale, such as would be employed on the farm or in the garden of the amateur horticulturist, there are several methods.

  • The hotbed is still very desirable where it is wanted on a small scale to grow early vegetables for the home or market, as the small cost for an outfit is very small as compared to hothouses.

  • To make the concentrated syrup, the cider mill must add to its equipment an ice-making machine and centrifugal machinery, so that the process is not practicable on a small scale.

  • Rows three feet apart, with the hills about six inches apart, three or four seed in a hill, might take up too much room on a small scale, but where one uses horses to cultivate, I think it is about right.

  • Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world; only, of course, let them be on a small scale in the first instance till you feel your feet safe under you.

  • On a small scale it is intolerable, but genius will have no small scales; it is even more immoral for a man to be too far in front than to lag too far behind.

  • It had been a battle on a small scale, but the victory had been won, and the cutter was towing her prize in the direction of the gunboat.

  • Flax is cultivated, on a small scale, by most of the Americans near us, for home-use.

  • Paris is a healthy town, with a good deal of stir; woollen and cotton manufactures are carried on here, but upon a small scale.

  • Wool sells, on a small scale, for half a dollar a lb.

  • It is indeed a gem; miniature Athens of a mediaeval princedom, that although on a small scale boasted of great power and splendour; tiny Granada of these Eastern provinces, bearing ample evidence of past literary and artistic glories!

  • There is also a Savings' Bank, which all are invited to patronize; six and a half per cent being the incentive held out to those economisers on a small scale.

  • We find on a small scale at MontbĂ©liard that contrast between wealth and poverty seen in England, but wholly absent from the rural districts of France.

  • Instead of confining himself like his predecessor to war on a small scale, the bold active man undertook at once, in spite of the inclement season, an expedition with his whole force to the mountains.

  • The customary tenants were buying and leasing land from each other before the Plague, and before the Plague some lords were leasing out their demesnes, but on a small scale.

  • The struggle is not so much between the large scale and small scale production of corn as between corn growing and grazing.

  • It would seem that, as so often happens, the new departure was first made on a small scale by small men, and chat it was not until some time had elapsed that its wholesale adoption by large capitalists plunged them in distress.

  • In the manufacture of a wine-glass the ductility of glass is illustrated on a small scale by the process of pulling out the leg.

  • START ON A SMALL SCALE Then, give your growing son as wide a variety of experience in work and in watching business affairs as the situation will permit of.

  • So the boy was carefully started on a small scale in the business of raising short-horns.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small scale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    coming again; human bodies; leagues distant; nonsignatory user; small apple; small birds; small boat; small country; small cove; small diameter; small dimensions; small dose; small fire; small ones; small pica; small piece; small post; small ship; small size; small steamer; small temple; small thing; small towns; small vessels; small white; small wonder