And with the programme of public sector spending cuts only beginning to take effect fewer of these large scale publicly funded projects will be built in the near future.

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Spending more time in school did reduce the probability of a teenage pregnancy, but on a much smaller scale than the effect of a pregnant sister.

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Trained staff are supposed to interpret these short messages and sort each type of side-effect into coded groups - so that the scale of the problem, if any, can be assessed.

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An hour runs about 930, 000 points, to give you an idea of the scale in effect here.

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Canadian canola farmers say they have had 10 years of large-scale use of neonics on canola with no observed ill effect.

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The unpredictable positive feedback effect of being first, achieving meteorically rapid scale makes picking winners hard.

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The typical program structure ties premium costs for the enrollee to income as a percentage of the poverty level, which, in effect, creates a sliding subsidy scale offering more support to low income individuals.

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William thought there must be a long compound German word for the way that large events in the world could affect your personal life: the scale was reduced to the point of insignificance, but the everyday effect was amplified.

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As a result, Britain's top rate of tax is significantly lower than in many developed economies but takes effect lower down the earnings scale.

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