The phrase "appeared to have progressed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's development or improvement in a particular area, often in a context where the progress is not definitively confirmed.
Example: "After several weeks of training, the athlete appeared to have progressed significantly in their performance."
Alternatives: "seemed to have advanced" or "looked like they had improved."
When Dwyer was playing for Randwick in the 1960s, standards of play throughout Australia's major clubs appeared to have progressed little from the organised thuggery of the sport's early years.
The imaging findings underestimated the effect of chemotherapy in one case where disease appeared to have progressed on CE MRI, but where pathology results indicated no response.
Eventually, only 2 patients showed normal activity levels at the final bone scintigraphy and 9 patients appeared to have progressed from normal preoperatively to slightly elevated levels at the latest follow-up.
Her relationship with Mr. Brener appears to have progressed quickly.
Economically, the world appears to have progressed from supine to staggering.
Using the latest lithostratigraphic, biostratigraphic, magnetostratigraphic, and tephrostratigraphic data for the White River Group, this change to more arid conditions in the midcontinent appears to have progressed from west to east over time.
While Nepal appears to have progressed further in strengthening earthquake resilience, the institutional structures in Bihar are stronger and could potentially support more sustainable resilience building in the long-term.
The inquiry does not appear to have progressed to interviews with General Allen, 58, who is married and the father of two, or Ms. Kelley, 37, the wife of a cancer surgeon and the mother of three.
The relationships between manager and boardroom do not appear to have progressed the way City wanted, as they stated the "need to develop a holistic approach to all aspects of football at the club" in the statement explaining Mancini's sacking.
Therefore, these cells appear to have progressed from their cell cycle arrest to meiotic prophase without DNA replication".
In the SU-DHL-4 line however, only 10% of cells were retained in G2/M with the majority of cells appearing to have progressed to a polyploid generation demonstrating aberrant DNA contents.
