Again this comes down to the phrase 'control column centrally forward until the buffet stops' or whatever words you have been taught to use (these are the CFS words).
In a deep stall, the control column may have to go quite a way forward until you reach the unstalled state - i.e. no buffet. However, if for example you are recovering from a stall in the approach configuration, you may decide that an early recovery is best and you recover at the first recognisable warning. This may be a high nose attitude or the aircraft's stall warning system, or any of the other warnings you know about. Whatever it is, it is likely that it won't be any buffet - so if there is no buffet to remove, you don't have to move the control column very far forward - if at all.
This is why it is so important to get the recognition properly learnt before continuing with the recovery. And as the key to the exercise is life preservation with the key phrase 'with minimum height loss' being the most elemental part of the lesson objective. It should be stressed that an automatic reaction of burying the stick in the instrument panel is not necessarily the best course of action if you stall on the approach at 100'.