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Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.

He realized the magnitude of his crime.

I've never seen a pearl of such magnitude!

<the mountain's sheer magnitude usually leaves tourists speechless>

This oil field used to produce an order of magnitude more oil as it does now.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Tokyo.

Unfortunately, three days ago a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan's Tohoku region.

The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history.

The magnitude of the issue can scarcely be overstated

It's up to two orders of magnitude less wasteful

The magnitude of a vector is indicated by the arrow’s length.

Our forces cannot repel power of that magnitude.

The hypotensive response was reduced in magnitude by pretreatment with antihistamines.

A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 hit the Japanese islands today.

Step on the scale.

Five tremors in excess of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale have shaken Japan just this week, but scientists are warning that the largest expected aftershock has yet to hit.

At the atomic scale we observe quantum mechanical effects that can not be explained by classical mechanics.

Harry Partch invented scads of musical instruments, many tuned to his 43-tone scale.

The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.

Miguel, the pickup artist, rates women's looks on a scale from one to ten, claiming that he only hits on eights and up.

An earthquake, 8.9 on the Richter scale, hits Japan and causes a massive tsunami.

On a scale of 1 to 10, please rate your proficiency in the following languages.

Their siheyuans were far smaller in scale and simpler in design and decoration, and the hutongs were narrower.

Do you think 'noo good jobs for young people' is a local problem or is it a problem on a national scale?

a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level of something. How would you rate his work on a scale of 1 to 5? the relation between the real size of something and its size on a map, model, or diagram

A project’s size or scale is based on a varying set of criteria, the most common of which are duration and cost.

Monkeys climb trees.

I've botched things up so bad I wish I could find a hole to climb into.

In the past I used to vote the Democratic ticket, but from now on I'll climb on the Republicans' bandwagon.

The priest seems to make it a practice to climb on the underdog's bandwagon and persuade the other side to compromise.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we WILL get there.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

If a high hill stood between A and B, it was important to decide whether the line should climb over it, pierce it with a tunnel, or make a detour to avoid it.

Shimamura, while he was in the inn's entrance, looked at the nearby mountain bathed in the strong smell of fresh leaves and went to climb the mountain as if drawn by this smell.

I know better than to climb mountains in winter without making all necessary preparations beforehand.

The three animals tried to help the old man, the monkey using its ability to climb to collect fruit and nuts, and the fox catching fish in the stream to bring to him.

Lately it's not so fashionable to measure success by how far you climb up the corporate ladder.

population climbed to over one milion by 1980;

Nobody expected such a rapid dollar climb.

There are people who climbed Mount Everest 10 or 11 times!

After that, internal temperature begins to climb rapidly.

They require a lot of equipment, safety measures, and well-trained and qualified instructors.

preventive measures

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.

Lately it's not so fashionable to measure success by how far you climb up the corporate ladder.

While the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

In my work, I sometimes simply determine an area with a tape measure.

There is a second way to define the Gabriel-Roiter measure which may be more intuitive.

We are, in large measure, responsible for students' success in the entrance exam.

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

Looks, brains, reflexes, rich family and, for good measure, vice president of the student committee - in other words he's 'perfect'.

I must measure a biulding because I want to put a new conveyor inside it.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.