What would have been a great diplomatic breakthrough during the cold war seemed this summer merely another symbol of changed times.

So their ability to package the whole thing into a 2-pound unit was a great breakthrough.

The great breakthrough was understanding that writing is just a part of life and not magic.

The pictures weren't the great breakthrough we'd hoped they might be.

This was the great breakthrough he had been seeking.

There was a time, back in the 1970's, when wine seemed on the verge of a great popular breakthrough.

Although, the 2006-07 season was marked as the great breakthrough of Janse.

In Paris, especially, it was not the moment for a great creative breakthrough.

New mechanisms are constantly being tried out, but, as yet, nobody has made the great breakthrough.

Then came what he now calls a "great breakthrough" in his career.