ascend vs go a long way

ascend

verb
  • To succeed. 

  • To slope in an upward direction. 

  • To become higher in pitch. 

  • To move upward, to fly, to soar. 

  • To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.). 

  • To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman. 

  • To go up. 

  • To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc. 

go a long way

verb
  • To achieve considerable success. 

  • To be adequate or helpful for a significant amount of time. 

How often have the words ascend and go a long way occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )