"achieves significant progress" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a great improvement or amount of progress that has been made in a particular task, project, or situation. For example: After months of hard work, the team achieved significant progress on the project.
Negotiations have failed to achieve significant progress.
"Maybe they felt they needed to achieve significant progress in the Damascus area, and loosened the rules of engagement".
However, she has yet to achieve significant progress, leaving many investors impatient and calling for her head.
The summit achieved significant progress, including a consensus to drop $55bn worth of multilateral debt for 18 of the most highly indebted countries.
The court noted in its opinion that the political process had achieved significant progress around the country, with 14 states in 15 years repealing laws outlawing interracial marriages.
"The tools are now all in place to achieve significant progress, but it depends on whether the city decides to use the tools," said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and former member of the Clinton administration.
The Alzheimer's Society, for example, has achieved significant progress on policy around dementia by harnessing the experience and insight of individuals and families with direct experience of dementia.
Madeleine Bunting, a Guardian columnist and associate editor, said in an introductory blogpost: "Meeting all the targets by 2015 was always going to be a huge global challenge, and several are unlikely to be met, but they have proved highly effective at galvanising global commitment and have achieved significant progress in many places around the world.
It found that Mr. Bush will face a nation that has grown sour on Washington and skeptical that he will be able to achieve significant progress in health care, the economy, the Iraq war and the cost of prescription drugs for older patients before he leaves office in three years.
For more on these debates a, read Madeleine Bunting's comment.BB Meeting all the targets by 2015 was always going to be a huge global challenge, and several are unlikely to be met, but they have proved highly effective at galvanising global commitment and have achieved significant progress in many places around the world.
