The phrase "a small scale focus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific, limited area of interest or attention within a broader context.
Example: "The research project will have a small scale focus on local environmental issues rather than global ones."
Alternatives: "a narrow focus" or "a limited scope".
Prokofiev conceived it on a small scale, focusing on a handful of characters rather than the vast historical aspect, an approach at odds with the demands of the wartime Soviet authorities.
The Integrated MNCH CHW Program was implemented at a small scale, focusing on the training and supervision of only four CHWs per facility and a sub-sample of total facilities within each district.
What use, after all, is a small-scale focus on the search for English-based bargains when you already have access to the world's largest global scouting network?
With little orientation toward longer-term knowledge building efforts, this type of research tends to remain on a small scale and focus on questions that are of greatest interest to the institution where they take place.
The vector space frequency distance method introduced in Bugnion et al. (1995) was not further pursued except in a small scale study focusing on different ways to map strings to vectors (Ozturk and Ferhatosmanoglu, 2003, 2005).
These studies, however, either conducted a small scale experiment or focused on one organism only.
Many Czech films are conceived on a small scale, with a sharp focus on the everyday, common life of the people.
The focus was on microscale relationships and we chose as our focus area a small scale study site covering 3091 ha characterized by vegetation mosaics with multiple patterns.
Site-specific management is designed to operate on a small scale and it is usually focused upon soil-type heterogeneity within each field, assuming microclimate homogeneity.
Due to sampling difficulties, refugee-focussed research projects often either utilise existing epidemiological databases, are conducted on a large scale through governmental or health organisations where attempts at randomisation with multiple ethnic groups are feasible, or employ purposive sampling on a smaller scale with a qualitative focus.
The movie might have worked, on a smaller scale, if it had focussed more on intellectual obsessiveness — on the zeal of connoisseurs who finally get to hold in their hands the works they have studied for a lifetime.
