"It served its purpose well".
The hall was narrow and it served its purpose well.
Filled with 21st-century classroom and parental jargon like "thinking chair," "friendly circle" and " 'listen up' bell," the story is unabashedly didactic, but for grown-ups, be they frantic or merely concerned, it serves its purpose well.
So, again, it served its purpose well and created a really quiet and powerful machine using it for a certain class of things, it just didn't necessarily have the flexibility that we need to have.
It has served its purpose well, which was to persuade Tory leave voters – the majority of the party – that they could trust the former remainer with the Brexit cause.
Unfortunately, while the site serves its purpose well, it is currently unable to actually transfer any funds to pay bills – you'll have to go to your bank's website to do that.
But it served (and serves) its purpose well.
Re "Mississippi Votes by Wide Margin to Keep State Flag That Includes Confederate Emblem" (news article, April 18): It is unclear to me how Mississippi's flag has "served its purpose well for the last 100 years," as a Jackson resident put it.
The squinch served its purpose well enough and continued in use for many centuries, but it had certain weaknesses; the pendentive was one of the great architectural inventions of all time, transforming what had been mere building, where stress was counteracted by mass, into organic architecture, where thrust was compensated by thrust and strength depended on balance.
Despite the simple design, the tool served its purpose well.
