Water companies and banks have been forbidden from merging to form world-scale groups.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It was that, but on a world scale and it was weird.
The Sun (2016)
That is also perhaps the most charitable description of the long-running attempts to cut the number of world-scale recorded music businesses from four to three.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The search is now on to replace some of the developed world-scale projects with new mines in new regions.