Representing the product is Nadya, a sweet Siberian country girl whose 13-year-old features have barely advanced beyond fetal.
Clearance of many badly damaged neighbourhoods has barely advanced at all; there is an acute shortage of land for rehousing.
The 35-year-old could barely advance the ball from there, found a bunker and proceeded to collapse.
Their duties barely advance them above a donkey: childbearing and rearing, working in the fields, fetching water from the crocodile-infested river, sweeping faeces from the straw huts.
America's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, toured the region, ending at a conference in Rome, where the cause of peace barely advanced.
As a nervous Labour party seeks an explanation for its dwindling ratings, it may take some comfort from the fact that the Tories have barely advanced.
Sale have not had a sell-out at their Edgeley Park home this season and plans to redevelop the ground have barely advanced beyond the discussion stage because the £8m the work would cost is not in place.
In the last year, however, the economy has barely advanced, and few analysts believe healthy growth will return within the next few months because many companies still have more machines and employees than they can profitably use.
