adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be grossly/vastly/hugely inflated
▪ The numbers of people involved have been grossly inflated by the media.
far/vastly/greatly superior
▪ They soon realized that the opposing team’s players were far superior to their own.
grossly/vastly/hugely inflated
▪ company directors on grossly inflated salaries
massively/grossly/vastly etc overestimate sth
▪ Western countries massively overestimated the extent of the problem.
vastly exaggerated (=by a very large amount)
▪ Bates told the children vastly exaggerated stories of his wartime exploits.
vastly overrated
▪ a vastly overrated film
vastly/greatly/heavily outnumber
▪ Men in prison vastly outnumber women.
vastly/grossly inferior (=by a very great amount)
▪ The quality of service was vastly inferior in that other restaurant.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ Yet despite the nation's visionaries, reality is vastly different.
▪ But they were in a quandary about how to blend their vastly different tastes.
▪ In 20 minutes by air-conditioned car or coach, you will be in an old and vastly different world.
▪ It is not difficult confuse the two, but they are vastly different.
▪ On the futuristic stories, however, things were vastly different.
▪ The Olympic world is vastly different now.
▪ Let us note at the outset that Bourdieu's anti-structuralism is vastly different from other such critiques.
▪ Incidentally, it also shows us how vastly different is esoteric from ordinary psychology.
great
▪ The potential of joy is vastly greater than our capacity to absorb it all.
▪ But vastly greater numbers of smaller bodies accompany the larger and more easily discovered ones.
▪ A similar scholarly consensus exists over the Nationalists' vastly greater success in dealing with internal factionalism.
▪ The sums involved in the Sagawa scandal were vastly greater than those paid out during the Recruit Cosmos case.
▪ Very quickly, however, such preoccupations were swallowed up in vastly greater ones.
▪ And if ion-winds can also be detected from the stars, their vastly greater distances should give even higher magnifications.
improved
▪ Aqib Javed, a vastly improved bowler in the last year, was perfect as a back-up to the two great bowlers.
▪ Blumlein's revolutionary technique vastly improved quality and simplified production, and was adopted internationally.
▪ With our vastly improved materials, adhesives and security technology, perhaps the new clock has an even greater chance of survival?
▪ It would make possible the provision of vastly improved public services, while reducing dependency upon them.
▪ If they feel that taxation is unfair, intelligent people take advantage of vastly improved financial communication and look about the world.
increased
▪ They would be at risk from the vastly increased number of cars and heavy lorries expected to use the new tunnel.
▪ On the whole, these results are more reliable than those of previous investigations due to the vastly increased sample size.
▪ A vastly increased supply of turf and logs was required for the many fires the occasion demanded.
▪ In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic, fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948.
▪ This is the key to creating the vastly increased capacity to train so urgently needed without dramatically expanding the available human resources.
▪ We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth.
inferior
▪ We find him in a disgusting attitude of respect towards predecessors whose intellect is vastly inferior to his own.
superior
▪ Even without him, the force against which Rodrigo now found himself ranged was vastly superior to his own.
▪ Mariner 9, with its vastly superior vantage point in orbit around Mars, saw it all.
▪ These three actions are vastly superior to breaking a habit by will-power alone.
▪ The difference here is that the aesthetic appearance of the output will be vastly superior to that of a word processor.
▪ Yet the two sets of Lieder are vastly superior as music.
▪ But their skills are still vastly superior to those of their counterparts elsewhere in the world.
▪ For two months a vastly superior army refused serious action against the rebels and finally backed them.
■ VERB
expand
▪ The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so.
▪ And satellite technology has vastly expanded long-distance broadcast communications, especially television.
▪ It was rather a huge success in sociopolitical terms, in vastly expanding the range of the shareholding classes.
improve
▪ Recently signed to Gift records, Newspeak are another vastly improved Yorkshire mob.
▪ Communication, management, and supervisory skills have vastly improved.
▪ The most important aspect, to my mind, is that finished work is often vastly improved and colour harmony easily achieved.
▪ Medical facilities, too, have vastly improved and are more widely available.
▪ The military-technical qualifications of GlavPU officers has vastly improved since the 1950s.
▪ These machines, the vehicles of the Al philosophy, will be vastly improved in their technical capabilities.
▪ He has turned out to be the nerve center of the vastly improved defense.
increase
▪ The Act has also vastly increased the powers of Immigration Officers.
▪ These rules vastly increased the number of discrimination cases that could be won or settled favorably out of court.
▪ The dollar weight of debts vastly increased, forcing bankruptcies.
▪ During the spring the Sol becomes a torrent as melt waters vastly increase the volume of water.
▪ The result is that the rewards of sport have vastly increased.
▪ That was written in 1946, since when pressure on the curriculum has vastly increased.
▪ Today, despite vastly increased global trade, they earn 1.1 %.
outnumber
▪ Yet in the long run, diet failures vastly outnumber the successes.
▪ Because school people vastly outnumber business-people in most school-to-work partnerships, the tendency is for educators to take over.
▪ Thinly veiled portraits of actual people in fiction vastly outnumber this type of unlucky strike.
▪ Vastly outnumbered but taking a more defined shape were the black Methodists.
reduce
▪ The population of Liverpool has vastly reduced since the so-called Labour party policy took over our great city.
▪ Captivity vastly reduces the life span of whales.
▪ And the opportunity for error and evasion would be vastly reduced.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Communication, management, and supervisory skills have vastly improved.
▪ Even without him, the force against which Rodrigo now found himself ranged was vastly superior to his own.
▪ He took me to such a vastly expensive restaurant and gave such a persuasive argument that I was fairly undone.
▪ Severing the umbilical cord between landlords and peasants vastly increased the proportion of the population for which the centre was directly responsible.
▪ The Olympic world is vastly different now.
▪ The redshank has vastly expanded its breeding range in Shetland in the last thirty years or so.
▪ Their untrained but nervous eyes, and rumour, vastly exaggerated both the ferocity and size of the advancing army.