Example sentences of "[not/n't] go very far " in BNC.

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1 ( In this paper I can not go very far into the available wealth of fact and conjecture in the neurophysiology of language , psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition , and comparative studies of man and other primates .
2 This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far .
3 But comparison with the press can not go very far .
4 The redating of many major groups in publication prior to 1960 , would be a considerable undertaking , but the time may have to come when this should be considered seriously , though the rather tentative suggestions made in the CBA Student 's Guide ( Webster , 1970 ) do not go very far in meeting this need , so badly felt by those now beginning in this study .
5 In the meantime the purchase grant of the Museum has been cut by nearly fifty per cent to Pta300 million ( £1.7 million ; £2.9 million ) which does not go very far when acquiring modern works .
6 £50000 does not go very far in TV , except on one or two small regional stations ; it is quite difficult , as the cigarette companies find , to spend £1 million plus on a brand without using TV at all : if you only have a few hundred pounds to spend there are few press media in which you can consider full pages or even moderately large sizes .
7 With your foot in that condition you can not go very far .
8 ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them .
9 Dean agreed : ‘ I had an opportunity to watch Jimmy a couple of times from short leg in my first season here , and I realised then that he does n't go very far forward .
10 But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour .
11 We 're both disabled : my wife is almost completely unable to walk , and I ca n't go very far because I 've recently lost half a lung
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