The phrase "as development progressed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a change or evolution that occurs over time during a development process.
Example: "As development progressed, the team identified several key areas for improvement in the project."
Alternatives: "as the project evolved" or "as the work advanced".
Over a year, as development progressed, around 20,000 gamers paid.
As development progressed, however, AS neurons reached a plateau in the percentage of cells that displayed spontaneous synaptic currents.
Detailed analyses of these movies allowed us to register the positions of Cerl-GFP-expressing cells in multiple focal planes as development progressed (Fig. 5; Supplementary Movie 6).
We observed that, as development progressed, these two Cerl-GFP-expressing domains always coalesced at the distal part of the egg cylinder.
As development progressed, they extended to imaging of the hands, wrist, or elbow.
However, Looking Glass Studios experienced serious financial trouble as development progressed into mid-1997.
As developments progressed, the Chalukyan builders modified the pure dravida tower by reducing the height of each stepped storey and multiplying their number.
For example, mice with inactivation of perlecan, an ECM protein required for collagen fibril assembly, fail to organize cartilage growth plates after the mesenchymal condensation stage and the phenotype progressively worsens as development progresses.
The cell cycle of neural progenitors, particularly the duration of the G1-phase, becomes progressively longer as development progresses (Takahashi et al, 1995).
As development progresses, sensory nerve cells develop further into distinct subtypes that perform particular tasks, such as responding to touch or pain.
As development progresses, both morphogenetic movements and proliferation causes the displacement of the developing DG neuroepithelium toward the inner core of the medial telencephalon.
