'not very new' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is not particularly new or fresh and possibly a bit outdated. For example: "My laptop is not very new, but it still works well."
The moral might be that we should automatically distrust anyone who seeks to accrue power to themselves but that, after all, is not very new news.
News is news, after all — even when, as in this case, it's not very new at all.
Despite many of their assumptions, consumerism is not very new.
Porsena Extra Bar, while not very new, continues to be one of my favorite places in the world.
SASHA FRERE-JONES: The immediate exception is a not very new artist — Eminem, who has had more staying power than anybody (including Marshall Mathers) expected.
Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, said moving MPs from the front bench because they disagreed Mr Corbyn on policy matters would be "not very new politics".
It's supposedly set in the present day, but by episode five we've realised the new Dallas isn't very new or modern.
And for those who aspire to one day contribute to the Lincoln library, remember what Lincoln once wrote: "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all".
Printed circuitry on plastic isn't very new, but what is interesting is that HP is commoditizing it and creating wristwatches using display elements and chips etched right onto a roll of soft plastic.
While this isn't very new or special, you can, potentially, place this same chatroom on your homepage and constantly be in contact with the CG team at any time, day or night.
Most of the ideas weren't very new; the novelty, instead, was the focus on the nuts and bolts of changing federal policy instead of red-meat rhetoric about defunding the government.
