There is no doubt that the industry has structural problems, it is on a relatively small scale, until now there's been little interconnection with the British mainland and the Irish Republic, and much of the infrastructure is getting old.

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But both anti-arms trade campaigners and defence manufacturers said the move would have little impact as the countries affected were relatively small-scale purchasers of military equipment.

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No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.

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Most of it has been wind power, but wind is still small-scale and relatively expensive.

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But to achieve reasonable scale despite a relatively small national defence budget, and to compete with rivals many times its size, IAI has been obliged to chase foreign sales.

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Under former Chief Executive Steve Jobs, Apple prided itself on prioritizing profits over scale and offered a relatively small number of products mostly targeted at the high end.

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After leaving the liver, the prohormone can be converted in the kidneys to the hormone form of vitamin D on a (relatively) large scale to be distributed throughout the body, or it can be converted on a small scale in local tissues.

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