1.   A second has been the creation of new technologies that have altered the scale needed for efficient operation.

2.   The time scale had been altered slightly, there was much to do.

3.   Would becoming a European business alter the scale of the targets in our plans?

4.   Only the largest companies retain fixed bodies of instrumentalists and choristers, so even the musical scale may be altered.

5.   They alter the scale on which we judge ourselves.