Sentence examples for a diminishing scale from inspiring English sources

The designer Jhane Barnes wants mathematics students to connect textiles, like the one at left she designed for Herman Miller, with something called fractal geometry: patterns that repeat on a diminishing scale.

Thereby, the functional disability of RA patients increases on a diminishing scale and is often measured via the disability index of the Health Assessment Questionnaire HAQQ).

The dumping of night soil on Chat Moss ended in 1923, but general refuse continued to be dumped on a diminishing scale until it finally ended in 1966.

The fact that a TAC is set does not mean that the stock is in good shape because most of our fisheries are regarded as being fished above sustainable levels, and you set TACs which would be on a diminishing scale.

The industry continued on a diminished scale into the 19th century at other centres.

What's refreshing here (aside from the inimitably British mock-epic tone) is precisely this sense of an immense fantasy played out in a diminished scale.

Okri's two follow-ups (or, as he describes them, the "continuation of the dream") developed his mythical vision but on a diminished scale.

An active commercial center for more than 400 years, the city mimicked Rome's urban customs and imperial architecture, though naturally on a diminished scale and with local stone instead of marble as the principal building material.

Rosenborg are successful and well-run, but on a diminished scale compared to the Scottish champions.

Even on a diminished scale, the design suggests more than mere utility.

Research in the Department seeks to explore and explain fundamental questions that range from understanding the origin of the universe, including string theory, cosmology, and astrophysics, to understanding the visible world of colloids and the world on an ever diminishing scale, from the mesoscale to the nanoscale, condensed matter, and atomic, molecular and particle physics.