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1887 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 28 301 It was always our hope that we should be able to imitate in full-scale trials with screws the model experiments on screws which have been made in the Admiralty experimental works at Torquay and at Haslar.

1919 Jrnl. Soc. Automotive Engineers Sept. 258/1 Extensive experimenting with models and full-scale machines has shown that [etc.].

1946 Nature 7 Sept. 337/2 It is impossible in chemical engineering and many other branches of applied science to conduct research entirely in the laboratory; full-scale or semi-scale plant must be used.

1981 Mariner's Mirror 67 71 (caption) Full scale model of the keel scarph.

2011 Victorian Nov. 28/4 The process of creating a coloured and/or stained glass panel starts with the production of a full-scale drawing of the design.

1939 Flight 36 373/2 The expected full-scale bombing attacks on this country.

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 778/1 Since Alexander Henderson..there has been no full-scale monograph on the wines of antiquity.

1972 S. Sutcliffe Martello Towers iv. 46 The government made plans to meet any full-scale invasion that might be attempted.

1989 Gamut Summer 34/1 This admission prompted a full-scale investigation of Darsee's research work at Harvard.

2013 New Yorker 30 Sept. 79/3 The American nuclear-war plan..provided for only one kind of response to an attack: full-scale nuclear war.