The UN health agencies say it could cost about $39 billion over the next six years to scale up the recommended measures in the 68 high-risk developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Donors have agreed to scale back. But experts say donors can help the needy and a nation's farmers if they buy food for humanitarian aid locally rather than importing it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

The flu outbreak is starting to affect the tourism industry, with one major airline announcing plans to scale back services between Australia and Japan by one-third because of a slump in demand from Japanese passengers.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Earlier Friday, BP's incoming CEO Bob Dudley, said it is time to scale down the vast operation to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he stressed his company's commitment to fully restore the environment.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

"What we are seeing is that the aid effort is beginning to scale up. We are all frustrated by the fact that there is not as much aid on the streets as anybody would like, but I think you will see that effort scaling up very rapidly,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

"We need to scale up our efforts delivered in Haiti, but we also need to ensure that children all over the world in the Horn of Africa, in Afghanistan,in Pakistan, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Sudan,in Chad all these children actually deserve and have the right to the same assistance as children everywhere else,".

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Visitors to the Computer History Museum can also see parts of one of the earliest large-scale electronic computing devices.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

If I could choose the language in which I spoke to you, I would choose to speak in Gaelic, the sliding scale,the sussuration of breath, The sound of water beating between us."

VOA: special.2011.05.09

He said that a small-scale counterterrorism effort is not a viable alternative to the broader military operation now underway.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

He and others hoped to see large-scale irrigation, reforestation and other projects that would help farmers grow more food.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

So we are going to be fighting a huge number of technology challenges. Then there is the whole scale issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"On the directive of the government, the army is now in full scale operation to eliminate,militants,miscreants and anti-state elements from Swat,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Israel,which launched a full-scale assault on Gaza says its blockade aims to weaken Hamas militants who have fired rockets at Israeli towns.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01