1.   Urban historians who deal with comparatively large populations limit the scale of their enquiries to aggregative studies.

2.   Even so, it would be unrealistic to limit the scale of a supplementary budget just to keep it within the debt-financing limit.

3.   That limited the scale of casino operations and the sources of capital to invest in them.

4.   The Clinton administration finally dropped the pipe-dream stuff, although experimental missile defense research is still conducted on a more realistic, limited scale.

5.   To preserve the look and feel of the area, developers are being required to limit the scale of their projects.

6.   Taiwan has responded by seeking to slow down Taiwanese investment in China by barring some types of projects and limiting the scale of investments.

7.   But the prime minister said his concern hinged on whether the United States and its allies will want to limit the scale of the first wave of entrants.

8.   Dealers said the low activity tended to favour a downward drift in share prices, although bargain-hunting was likely to limit the scale of any further losses.