The model of the new city hall is 'to scale'. [=the model shows exactly how the parts will relate to each other when it is built]
She 'scaled the heights of' the publishing industry. [=she rose to a very high position in the publishing industry]
Their equipment isn't suitable for 'large-scale' production. [=it cannot be used to make things in large amounts]
(..) This is what you've been conspiring to conceal? - A disease? - No, you've got it all backwards. AIDS, the Ebola virus, on an evolutionary scale, they're newborns. This virus walked the planet long before the dinosaurs. Walked? Your aliens, your little green men, arrived here millions of years ago. (..)1998 The X Files
(..) for a project. Biological warfare. A virus. What killed those men? Something l won't even write about. We have no context for what it is. Or any appreciation of the scale at which it will be unleashed. A plague? The plague to end all plagues. A silent weapon for a quiet war. (..)1998 The X Files