1.   In reducing the scale of our businesses to match reduced markets, we lost many colleagues and friends.

2.   But advocates for the poor think the government is putting too much stock in just reducing the scale of its housing, that many problems remain to be tackled.

3.   Changing it probably would reduce the scale of their profit decline.

4.   The movement to reduce the scale of American military bases has gained unprecedented strength since last fall, and the momentum has spread to the rest of Japan.

5.   They are urging Lucchesi to reduce the scale by building fewer houses, or imposing deed restrictions limiting, for example, the size of lawns.

6.   To preserve the amphibians, biologists are recommending that some states reduce the scale of their trout stocking and even remove the fish from some popular fishing lakes.

7.   Rogge also restated his wish to reduce the scale of the Olympics with a view to Africa staging the event.

8.   A proposal for the port in Naha, for instance, would move it to the neighboring city of Urazoe, although the scale may be reduced.

9.   The assistance is aimed at providing potable water, thereby reducing the scale of the disease, Ayoola said.