They have found, for instance, that some large-scale patterns of air circulation may come and go in a rough kind of cycle.

Evolution was like weather-chaotic in specific details, but falling into large-scale patterns with a limited repertoire of effects.

(In addition to mapping large-scale patterns of galaxies, 2dF established an upper limit on neutrino mass.)

Second, there is much to be said for the application of similar methods to investigations of large-scale, hemisphere-related patterns of species interactions.

"But the large-scale pattern favoring that general area in some ways is not luck," he said.

We're seeing large-scale patterns of unemployment evolving.

And Gould is right to expand the explanatory agenda of evolutionary biology to include large-scale patterns in life's history.

His bold, large-scale patterns in psychedelic colors were an instant hit in a market dominated by the fuddy-duddy.

I would say that music gives the best index of the large-scale patterns in the brain.

It is one of the most venerable, well-documented, and controversial large-scale patterns in macroecology (Willig et al. 2003).