"These are cuts of a scale which we have never seen before".
It is an arbitrary number on a scale which counts people with a BMI of over 30 as obese.
"She basically drew me a scale which looked like half a square," James says of the nurse.
It [the dispute] is on a scale which comes along only every 50 or 60 years," he warned.
Today's riots have been characterised by opportunist looting on a scale which befits our era of wanton materialist consumerism.
"The ability now to hoover up, analyse, discard, process information is now on a scale which was unimaginable even a few years ago.
It took the view that Channel 5 was pushing the boundaries of taste further than expected by television audiences, on a scale which merited debate.
Later, taxes were lowered, and the end of the Cold War brought an expansion of the global marketplace which allowed investors to benefit from the world's resources, on a scale which the Edwardians could only dream of.
The Guardian did what newspapers were invented to do: to make well-reasoned editorial judgements – in this case to reveal an abuse of power by American and British intelligence agencies on a scale which most people would have regarded unthinkable.
This, roughly, is what happens: Auto-Tune locates the pitch of a recorded vocal, and moves that recorded information to the nearest "correct" note in a scale, which is selected by the user.
Members of the transport select committee yesterday told the government that an efficient railway system would only be achieved by investing on "a scale which dwarfs" the government's spending plans.
