Sentence examples for to be small scale from inspiring English sources

The clothing-manufacturing operations in Chinatown tend to be small scale.

"But there's still an opportunity to set the terms for a new city, even if the efforts may have to be small scale and guerrilla style for the moment.

Events such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), that affect only one nucleotide at a time, are said to be small scale events, and are more frequent than large scale events [ 1].

Most Amazonian deforestation is now reckoned to be small-scale and gradual.

A number of programs have tried to address this disparity, but they tend to be small-scale and local.

The sale of lion meat also appears currently to be small-scale, and to occur in brief episodes so experts are cautious about alluding to its impacts.

Many other projects aimed at providing contraceptive information and services to adolescents in India and elsewhere continue to be small-scale and time-limited.

"Most of what's going on appears to be small-scale pilot projects, which have been evaluated on a small scale," he says.

Many are thought to be small-scale, amateur landlords renting out a property as a retirement nest egg, or "accidental" landlords letting out a former home they have been unwilling or unable to sell.

Hehe!" The films he's interested in tend to be small-scale and challenging – after making Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People with Michael Winterbottom, he's now working with him again on a film about a prisoner, shot in real time over five years.

Most of those arrested for drug offences in Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Ghana, Guinea and Sierra Leone tend to be small-scale cannabis dealers or users who spend a long time in pre-trial detention and often succumb to other illnesses while waiting to be sentenced or released (by paying a fine – or a bribe).