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What does go a long way mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To be adequate or helpful for a significant amount of time.
  2. (idiomatic) To achieve considerable success.
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Basic training in linguistics can go a long way to foster this realization.
Surprise checks by the police, during day and night, can go a long way in checking the menace, thus preventing fatal road accidents.
It would go a long way toward alleviating the prejudice some full-timers have toward us.
You have to go a long way down the list to find a company that hasn't been floated in a privatisation or demutualisation.
But clearly humour, and an appeal to the common fund of historical anecdotes, go a long way.
It will be a matter of future government policy, but certainly they would go a long way toward wiping out the deadweight debt of the province.

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