Ms. Prata, a skilled storyteller with a clear, unsentimental eye, neatly balances large-scale horror with a small-scale point of view charged with simple, direct feeling, deftly interweaving the present-tense narrative with the tale from the journal.
Mexico presold its oil output for 2009 at $70 a barrel almost twice the current market price.If recession persists into 2010, the government can still stimulate the economy, albeit on a smaller scale, points out Alejandro Werner, the deputy minister of finance.
Fiction on a small scale is, from one point of view, as old as the English language.
RILEY: I recently visited a thermal spa designed by Peter Zumthor in the village of Vals, Switzerland, and it represents, on a small scale, some of these points.
The data collected at study sites in the Canadian Prairies show that snowpack isotopic signatures exhibit a high spatial variability over a small scale (<100 m) limiting the usefulness of point samples to estimate an average isotopic composition of snow over a large area.
Here, the level of tourism is on a small scale.
Manufacturing took place on a small scale.
Petroleum is extracted on a small scale.
Perhaps at a small scale.
"But it's only a small scale.
