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Academic English #32. go to great lengths: make a lot of effort

New Hair Institute · 김진오의 뉴헤어 프로젝트 · June 10, 2025

go to great lengths means “to make a lot of effort” or “to try to do something even at great expense or inconvenience,” and in academic contexts in particular, it is often used to...

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Clinic: New Hair Institute

Original post date: June 10, 2025

Translated at: April 29, 2026 at 2:33 PM

Medical note: This translation does not guarantee medical accuracy or suitability for treatment decisions.

go to great lengths means

“to make a lot of effort” or “to try to do something even at great expense or inconvenience,”

and in academic contexts in particular, it is often used to emphasize the precision of research, the validity of experiments, or the thoroughness of presentation preparation.

It is formally used as follows:

go to great lengths to + base verb

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Three example sentences

  1. We went to great lengths to obtain accurate data.

  2. To test this hypothesis, the research team went to great lengths to control various variables.

  3. He went to great lengths to prepare for the presentation, even reading over 100 papers.

This expression can also be naturally used in sentences during a presentation, such as:

“We went to great lengths to ensure that our findings are statistically significant.”

“The team went to great lengths to minimize bias in the sample selection.”

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