progress - use in sentences
Preposition: at
- pace: Instead, the NSP should be progressing at a slower pace.
Converse of object
- make: A promise to make progress on progress on PR.
- assess: The City Council's Corporate Plan sets out monitoring and evaluation tools to assess progress on the Council's performance.
- impede: Two years later, the same factors still appear to be impeding progress.
- hinder: This study discovers how being visually impaired can hinder progress and looks at common experiences.
- discuss: Members discussed progress on the possible re-development of Henley's railroad station.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- through: The Tigers progressed through to the 2nd Round of the FA Cup following an extraordinary 1st Round replay against Whitby Town.
Preposition: towards
- equality: Race Convention 2006: Britain's progress toward race equality and what needs to be done next.
Adjective modifier
- steady: The boat and its crew made steady progress, against a heavy swell, toward the stricken vessel in the Bristol Channel.
- rapid: Recent years have seen a rapid progress in two areas connected with quantum mechanics.
- satisfactory: Doctors who make satisfactory progress will emerge with a CCT.
- technological: Comparing early games with today's programs also shows the technological progress achieved during the last 4 decades.
- significant: Significant progress toward a global approach to corporate workouts has been made, however, thanks to the efforts of many of you.
- slow: For that reason, amendment 2 expresses concern at the slow progress toward achieving the Welsh housing quality standard by 2012.
Modifies a noun
- report: Please see the attached Progress report for more specific data per site.
Possessives
- rake: Elizabeth has sung in the chorus in productions of The Rake's Progress, Manon, Idomeneo and Marriage of Figaro.
- pupil: Mr Gibson: The pupils ' progress is measured against targets.
Noun used with modifier
- pupil: How are you involved in monitoring pupil progress against these targets?
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