Sentence examples for official scale from inspiring English sources

Jessica Depies, 12, held her breath as her cow, Spot, stepped onto the judges' official scale.

Reception classes stay indoors when the air quality index (AQI) hits 180 – measured on an official scale of 500 by various sensors across the city.

The official scale of reference is the Fire Danger Index (FDI), which uses 1939's Black Friday as its benchmark, affording that a score of 100.

When the National People's Congress convened yesterday morning, the skies were thick; the ultra-fine particles in the air that are the most dangerous to the lungs were measuring at a level of four hundred and sixty-nine — "hazardous" on the official scale, and more than ten times higher than the highest level ever recorded in Los Angeles.

The London Ambulance Service recorded a 14% jump in emergency calls for help with breathing difficulties, asthma and heart problems at the peak of the crisis this week when London experienced "very high" levels of pollution – the highest on Defra's official scale.

"Even though on the official scale it could not measure up to the fact that at 17 I won this composition award and was the youngest-ever winner, yada, yada, yada," he said, "here I was in the wings, about to do my first 'Nutcracker' in some small stage in the middle of nowhere, and it meant so much more to me.

As the results were to be presented on the official scales of German NA and PISA, the item-difficulty parameters were fixed onto those of PISA 2000 (all nine items) and the subsequent NA 2009 (18 items), respectively (see Fig. 3).

But with the announcement of healthy survivors, officials scaled back their fears that the men might have been severely injured by the ordeal.

Officials scaled back that program, known as the Green Dam-Youth Escort, after an outcry by both individual Internet users and corporations.

A19 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 SecurityEasesty EAses As Threat Loses Steam New York officials scaled back security in the city's subways after federal and local law enforcement authorities all but discounted the report of a terrorist threat.

City Eases Subway Alert As Threat Is Discounted New York officials scaled back security in the subways after federal and local law enforcement authorities discounted the report of a terrorist threat.