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Example sentences for "large scale"

  • This method of using oil has the advantage of making the evolution of acetylene on a large scale appear to proceed more quietly than usual, and also of removing the dust from the carbide before it reaches the water of the generator.

  • It has been well said of Gozzoli that, though he attempted grand subjects on a large scale, he could not rise above the limitations of a style better adapted to the decoration of cassoni than to fresco.

  • The barracks are handsome, and on a large scale.

  • The manufactory of oil of vitriol is on a large scale, and is worthy of attention.

  • This plan was ultimately carried out on a large scale, and was the necessary condition of Sherman's Atlanta campaign of 1864.

  • To make much instructive use of military history in this way demands a good deal of voluminous reading and the command of charts and maps extensive enough to allow the presentation of the face of a country on a large scale.

  • We believe that the administration should be for the benefit of the many; and that greed and rascality, practiced on a large scale, should be punished as relentlessly as if practiced on a small scale.

  • There are now sixteen vacancies in the Ordnance Department, thus leaving that branch of the service without sufficient officers to conduct the business of the different arsenals on a large scale if ever required.

  • It is confidently believed that by the middle of the approaching year a sufficient proportion of this plant will have been installed to enable us to resume the work of excavation on a large scale.

  • The third and northernmost temple, separated from the others by a ravine, is on a large scale; the colossi of the facade are six in number and 53 ft.

  • The introduction of water into butter is also practised on a large scale in the United States, where a branch of trade in ``renovated'' butter has sprung up.

  • It was therefore predicted that the introduction of acetylene on a large scale would be followed by numerous accidents unless copper and its alloys were rigidly excluded from contact with the gas.

  • The history of the rise of every nation in the world unhappily bears out the notion that princes are only robbers upon a large scale, till their ambition is curbed by a balance of power among nations.

  • The Mewâtîs now supply men to a few robber gangs, but are incapable of mischief on a large scale.

  • There is not much money in wheat-farming unless it be done on a large scale, and I had no wish to raise more than I could feed to advantage.

  • Do in a small way, if need be, what I have done on a large scale, and you will quickly commence to get good dividends.

  • From that period to the Taeping Rebellion, or for nearly 200 years, there was no internal insurrection on a large scale.

  • The whole Manchu clan marched to his rescue, and it was on this occasion that Noorhachu had his first experience of war on a large scale.

  • Sir, it is but "borough-mongering" upon a large scale.

  • Sometimes the great estate took the shape of the "bonanza farm" devoted mainly to wheat and corn and cultivated on a large scale by machinery.

  • The final problem which had to be solved before settlement on a large scale could be begun was that of governing the territory.

  • Fire prevention work was undertaken in the forests on a large scale, reducing the appalling, annual destruction of timber.

  • Even at the end of the nineteenth century, after agriculture was well advanced and stock and sheep raising introduced on a large scale, minerals continued to be the chief source of wealth in a number of states.

  • Now this country has begun to practice scientific forestry on a large scale so that China now has the worst-managed forests in the world.

  • However, more interest is being taken each year in the outdoor life features of the eastern forests, and ultimately they will be used on a large scale as summer camp grounds.

  • If such trade is developed on a large scale, a conservative, practical national forestry policy must be worked out, endorsed and lived up to by every producing exporter.

  • It is not absolutely necessary, Charley, although it is of course economical when the cultivation is carried on upon a large scale.

  • Up to the present time the butter made had been obtained from the milk of two cows only, but he now determined to try the experiment upon a large scale.

  • Willson in the United States first started its manufacture on a large scale, and the great electrochemist, Henri Moissin, about the same time independently invented a similar process as a result of his notable work with the electric furnace.

  • Steam, however, is more economical on a large scale, and still continues to be used in great factories for the heavier machinery.

  • And popular education, on a large scale, is of course impossible until there is a better Government and an adequate revenue.

  • Nevertheless, it is absolutely imperative that the Chinese should develop an iron and steel industry of their own on a large scale.

  • Famines in China can be permanently cured only by better methods of agriculture combined with emigration or birth-control on a large scale.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large scale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    large area; large audience; large block; large business; large cities; large city; large clusters; large crowd; large dinner; large dish; large estates; large excess; large game; large garden; large glass; large hall; large increase; large iron; large quantities; large slice; large sums; large town; larger scale; larger size; largest producer; yellow light