Example sentences of "[vb past] not [adv] reach the " in BNC.

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1 With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 .
2 That of France , the greatest European State , did not again reach the level achieved in the War of the Spanish Succession , when in 1710 Louis XIV had some 360,000 soldiers at his disposal ; but most others grew .
3 Fleming concluded that information relating to the elderly worker did not readily reach the attention of management ( Fleming 1963 ) .
4 Two partitions of heavy wooden panelling did not quite reach the arched ceiling and the other two sides of the room were formed by the walls of the crypt itself .
5 Although they did not quite reach the same heights , Ann Welsh ( Liverpool ) and Claire Swift ( Sefton ) maintained a high standard in the under-17 race over the same distance , with the Liverpool girl taking the honours in 4–39.0 against her rival 's 4–40.4 .
6 Yet if his ideas and perceptions did not always reach the page , they undoubtedly entered the minds and imaginations of the many lucky enough to converse with him .
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