The phrase "an indicator of progress" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that signifies advancement or improvement in a particular context.
Example: "The increase in sales figures is an indicator of progress in our marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a sign of advancement" or "a measure of improvement."
But anyone attempting a running census of S-words (or D-phrases) as an indicator of progress was barking up the wrong tree.
Thus, the reduction in the gender pay gap is an indicator of progress towards equality and sustainable development.
It is intended that the audit tool be used to conduct audits within an organisation to provide an indicator of progress in managing fleet safety and to consistently benchmark performance against other organisations.
Bridges are often viewed as an indicator of progress in technical capability, engineering skills as well as a symbol of economic potential of a particular city, region or a country.
New Lancet Series finds counting births and deaths is an indicator of progress towards ending 3 million preventable infant deaths LONDON, 20 May 2014 - Each year, 5.5 million babies enter and leave the world without being recorded and one in three newborns — over 45 million babies — do not have a birth certificate by their first birthday.
Lipstick may be an indicator of economic progress.
The release of Proloquo2Go's boy and girl voices — the company also has two other children's voices with a British accent for that market — is an indicator of new progress in the decades-old text-to-speech industry.
If female empowerment has led to more baby girls not being born, that can be taken as a measure of the vast disenfranchisement that still exists, and an indicator of the progress that is yet to be made.
Nasdaq may hope that the recent travails of the NYSE could persuade more companies to loosen their links with its bitter rival.Borders of financeForeign direct investment, an indicator of the progress of globalisation, remained flat at $653 billion in 2003, down from a peak of $1.4 trillion in 2000, according to UNCTAD.
One doesn't ordinarily think of Eddie Murphy buddy movies as an indicator of social progress, but in two decades he's gone from playing criminals and street hustlers to playing a world-famous boxer who gets his picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated and flies his own plane.
It is an indicator of such progress that even striking financial results – Hibs lost £800,000 last year and have reported themselves likely to do so again – are glossed over by a support who were previously vociferous about a need for ownership change.
