Example sentences of "not [verb] very far " in BNC.
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| 31 | All attempts to link the countries more closely together through the Council of Europe , the most appropriate body because of the wide spread of its membership , did not get very far . |
| 32 | This is why a very fine-grained analysis is needed , and why we will not get very far in synthesizing our findings in relation to large databases like this if we do not use quantification : as these differences are not categorical , we usually will not be able to demonstrate them convincingly unless we quantify . |
| 33 | Nigel Barnes had Kate Kennett as a tutor , but he did not get very far with the evaluative work : |
| 34 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 35 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 36 | As in earlier times , people moved frequently within a wider neighbourhood than the parish , but usually they did not travel very far . |
| 37 | Personally , I prefer the notion that this structure , whatever it was , did not open very far at this time and soon closed again . |