If done by hand, such an analysis would have represented a vast human effort.

It seemed to take minutes to make even the simplest motions, and a vast effort of will to understand anything that was said to me.

He smiled at her as if that shaping of the lips came, for him, with vast effort.

From the waters of the flood, and a vast common effort, modern Dayton was born.

At last he made a vast effort and opened his eyes.

It's money the city has left over from a vast urban-renewal effort that was started 30 years ago.

We shall only succeed in dealing with the problems through a vast international cooperative effort.

It would have taken a vast effort to make those old ships space worthy.

It was accompanied with a vast educational effort in programming and computer science.

By a vast effort of will, I said nothing in reply.