Example sentences of "[not/n't] reached the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom had not reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine without discovering quite a few of them . |
| 2 | Whilst the situation has not reached the endemic proportions of mentally ill people who are homeless in America , the situation of these groups in Britain is serious enough to warrant consideration and a commitment to funding of decent support in the community . |
| 3 | The bank gives warning that industry expectations of inflation had still not reached the level consistent with keeping price rises in the target range . |
| 4 | Speaking after a meeting with EC Finance Ministers in Luxembourg he envisaged that a smaller number of countries with low inflation ( France , West Germany , Belgium , Netherlands and Luxembourg ) would enter a European central banking system and that others who had not reached the same degree of economic convergence , or were not ready to give up sufficient sovereignty rights , would be invited to enter later . |
| 5 | As indicated above , banks and financial institutions in most LDCs have not reached the same stage of development as those in the industrially advanced countries . |
| 6 | These changes in mortality , especially among the old elderly , suggest that we have not reached the maximum human lifespan . |
| 7 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It has n't reached the reserve price . ’ |
| 9 | The phrase ‘ money talks ’ obviously had n't reached the former communist country . |