Sentence examples for approached the scale of from inspiring English sources

The devastation approached the scale of a 1998 calamity in which 16 percent of the world's reefs died.

So far, however, it has not nearly approached the scale of an earlier White House scandal, Iran-contra, and its 11 convictions.

Italian restorers have reclaimed other frescoes from rubble, but Dr. Basile said none has approached the scale of the Assisi project.

Thousands of people have died in Europe over the decades in violent attacks by groups like ETA in Spain and the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland, but no single incident has approached the scale of Thursday's attacks here.

Had the attacks on the two towers been timed a bit more precisely, closing off possibility of escape, or had the plane that hit the Pentagon aimed for a bull's-eye, the slaughter could have approached the scale of Hiroshima, where some 70,000 Japanese citizens were exterminated in a nuclear flash, and Nagasaki, where a similar number died three days later.

Gallatin's coal ash problems do not approach the scale of earlier disasters, but people and communities are still affected.

The WikiLeaks' unauthorised disclosures of the last year are the first in 40 years to approach the scale of the Pentagon Papers (and even surpass them in quantity and timeliness).

Animals have been picking up the food scraps forever, but nothing in history approaches the scale of modern food waste.

The industry is starting to approach the scale of the wind industry, which saw over 5,000 megawatts of capacity installed last year (down from over 10,000 the year before).

The few small museums in places like Louisiana and Maryland that tell parts of the story of slavery do not approach the scale of what is planned for Charleston.

Web revenue is small now, but if it ever approaches the scale of some series on DVD, the prize could be substantial.