Example sentences of "little progress have [be] " in BNC.

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1 Before the budget , because of the problem of trying to find money to cut the local bills , little progress had been made .
2 Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter .
3 Bevin emphasised the accumulating problems resulting from the fact that little progress had been made : he had encountered difficulties at the British Commonwealth conference held at Colombo in January 1950 and there were criticisms of the United States for not having given a lead .
4 Foremost amongst the measures proposed in the latter instance was increased Aboriginal access to land , an issue upon which little progress had been made — with the possible exception of the sparsely populated Northern Territory — and which remained at the heart of much Aboriginal discontent .
5 At the conclusion of the meeting , little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties .
6 Both sides have agreed in principle to a referendum on the future of the territory , and the United Nations has been trying to achieve agreement on its details but , despite concessions by Polisario , little progress has been made .
7 Of the present pilot sites , relatively little progress has been made in terms of collecting outcome information .
8 Industry is another area where little progress has been made .
9 Apart from perhaps the use of story grammars [ Mandler & johnson , 1977 ] and the concept of macrostructure formation [ Kintsch & van Dijk , 1983 ] , very little progress has been made towards the implementation of discourse rules in NLP systems .
10 Relatively little progress has been made in answering these questions .
11 As you have not even seen your inheritance yet very little progress has been made . ’
12 Although there are some countries where little progress has been made , most African nations now have , or are moving towards , multi-party political systems .
13 However , very little progress has been made in leading children towards conventionally accepted explanations .
14 Little progress has been made in terms of developing a theory of the disorder which would provide greater understanding of how and why these factors relate to each other .
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