Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [verb] very far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Journal has not got very far in finding out where the applications are expected to come from — or how the thing will be marketed . |
| 2 | The study of industry by economic historians has progressed apace , but the understanding of industry in its landscape has not advanced very far . |
| 3 | This argument seems to me sound so far as it goes , but it does not go very far . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | £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 . |
| 6 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |