Tavish fought the wind, tacking back and forth, but she still made only slow headway toward Corwell.

But in America, the notion of the stage director as all-powerful visionary, uniting the separate performing arts, made slow headway.

Benham stayed afloat, making slow headway towards Guadalcanal during the 15th but, by 16:37, further progress was impossible and her crew abandoned ship.

He held back, as a Watcher came wobbling in out of the storm, making slow headway against the wind.

Actually he made very slow headway.

In their section of the battle, the Dead made slow headway.

He swam hand over hand and made slow headway, so I left him behind and caught up with Marie.

Privatisation is making only slow headway and so far the country has not managed to entirely resolve the problem of integrating its Russian minority groups.

We are making slow and painful headway.

I do think we are making slow and gradual headway here, although I would not say that I am satisfied with this progress as a whole.