But while television proved a vast wasteland, the Internet provides resources so rich and vast that I find it hard to believe that I once functioned without it.
But the subject proved too vast, and his research stalled.
The subject proved too vast to cover in a single book; a second volume, he says, will be published a year from now.
And despite rare bipartisan agreement among party leaders in this case, the gulf between what lawmakers were hearing in Washington and what they have been hearing from home proved too vast for many people, particularly Republicans, to jump.
They have played a vital role in shaming governments into helping to make Britain a healthier place – not just by throwing up immediate, striking results, but by proving a vast data set that can be returned to over the decades.
Ultimately, the National Weather Service failed to prove the "vast majority" of Chen's alleged conduct, she said, and the Commerce Department didn't have cause to terminate Chen.
After he locked up the Republican presidential nomination, once again proving the vast majority of the punditocracy -- which kept claiming various spurious "ceilings" to his support -- embarrassingly wrong, Trump proceeded to spend many weeks shooting himself in the, er, foot.
Schroeder added that the NWS failed to prove the "vast majority" of allegations against Chen, stressing that DOC officials were intent on firing her regardless of whatever additional facts were revealed.
This phenomenon, known as the 'planning fallacy', is often exemplified by a genuine and confident belief that a project will proceed as planned, even when it has been proved that the vast majority of similar projects have taken longer.
(The cynic in me believes we might get there faster if one of these heavenly bodies is proved to contain vast reserves of oil).
