The phrase "action on a scale" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action or event that occurs at a significant or large magnitude, often in a comparative context.
Example: "The environmental initiative was an action on a scale that had never been seen before in the community."
Alternatives: "action of considerable magnitude" or "action of significant scope".
What is really needed, as they would be the first to acknowledge, is immediate action on a scale commensurate with what's at stake: not an invocation of the Clean Air Act but a new law of comparable vision that would lay out clear — and aggressive — targets for greenhouse-gas reductions.
The college president and his students, though, were to carry the words into action on a scale that gives special significance to another title tucked into Witherspoon's collection Great Britain's Collection of the Several Statutes … now in force relating to high treason, printed in Edinburgh in 1746.
The listing — said to evaluate 500 actions that a player might make during a game, and scoring each action on a scale of 1 to 100 — came very close to confirming the judgment many people had made on the days of the matches.
Analysts expect months of industrial action on a scale that could be worse than that seen last year.
Rejuvenating town centres requires radical action on a scale not seen since the building programmes of post-war Britain, according to a new report.
… If today's resolution is not followed by action on a scale and scope commensurate to the virus, this resolution will be cited years from now as evidence that we raised hope that we didn't deliver on".
"After I die," Nikita Khrushchev said towards the end of his life, "they will place my actions on a scale - on one side evil, on the other side good.
In one experiment, volunteers were exposed to TMS for 25 minutes before taking a test in which they read a series of scenarios and made moral judgments of characters' actions on a scale of one (absolutely forbidden) to seven (absolutely permissible).
As a part of developing action plans, the counselors ask participants to rate their self-efficacy for completing each action plan on a scale of 1 to 10.
The scope and level of the explosive action is on a scale never quite seen before on the show.
But some believe that making blockbuster action movies on a scale of Disney's Marvel would be the smartest use of money.
