"breakthrough was made" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a major accomplishment, a discovery, or a moment of great success. For example: "After months of research, a breakthrough was made and a new vaccine was developed to combat the virus."
After years of tension, a major breakthrough was made in October 2007 regarding North Korea's nuclear program.
England left the field to jeers at half-time but the breakthrough was made in the 51st minute.
Last month, on 26 May, all the partners in the experiment believe that the breakthrough was made.
The breakthrough was made in the early 1950s by Kenneth Arrow, an American economist, and Gérard Debreu, a French mathematician who died in 2004.
The Vatican also hosted delegations from the two countries at what were said to have been the talks at which the breakthrough was made.
The Vatican also hosted delegations from Cuba and the US at what were said to have been the talks at which the breakthrough was made.
"The breakthrough was making really thin layers of these piezoelectric technologies and it was Broadcom which was using this stuff… We couldn't have started this company five years earlier.
Recently, however, a breakthrough discovery was made by Finetti et al. showing that IFT20 is expressed in lymphoid and myeloid cells, indicating that IFT20 has functions independent of cilia formation.
Unless a breakthrough is made in Middle East negotiations, which looks unlikely, there is little hope for them.
But on current trends, even if the next big breakthrough is made in Britain, the benefits may be felt most strongly elsewhere.
The film (which I discuss in this clip) is something of a cinematic manifesto, a depiction of the long apprenticeship, hard knocks, bitter rivalries, and personal agonies from which an artistic breakthrough is made.
