Over the next two hours, little progress appeared to be made, except that the pains grew obviously stronger.

But in recent weeks, the progress of the guerrilla campaign appears to have slowed.

At the time, the progress of the construction appeared to be waning and it made even those involved in the project skeptical.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

The truth is that learning new skills does take time, and progress may appear to be very slow.

No significant progress appears to have been made at the meeting.

Still, the overall progress at last appears to offer a glimmer of hope on the export front.

A further area in which progress appears to have been either very slow or non-existent is that of the common agricultural policy.

At the moment, progress appears to be slow, and the nature of the discussions is uncertain.

Alan Johnson, the health secretary, was called back yesterday afternoon to a private meeting, but little progress appeared to have been made on a deal.