Nevertheless, the overall scale of literary activity remained large.
The overall scale of the company's investment remains small.
In the overall scale of suffering, though, the whales win.
Why the overall scale of the problem is even worse than we thought.
Alan J. Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, said the overall scale of the program looked "reasonable" at $800 billion over two years.
But in a delta so vast, crisscrossed by tiny waterways, it is very difficult to assess the overall scale of death and destruction.
The overall scale of the problem - with hundreds of violent attacks on staff every single day - has begun to prompt much more concerted action.
But none of them predicted Hagan's defeat in North Carolina, and none of them foresaw the overall scale of the Republican victory.
When Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler's valedictory symphony, the overall scale should be right, but subtleties are sure to be lost.
Compared with the overall scale of human-induced climate change, the additional warming expected if the ice albedo feedback goes all the way would not be immense.
The number of American troops participating decreased by 7,500 this year, but the overall scale of the drills remained the same, South Korean defense officials said.
