Sentence examples for progress for the first from inspiring English sources

So there is indeed tangible progress for the first time in years.

Development of the Balloon-based Operation Vehicle (BOV) is currently in progress for the first flight scheduled in 2006.

I saw the seeds in progress for the first time about seven months ago at Ai's studio in Beijing, when I was writing a Profile of him for the magazine.

He pointed to two key factors driving progress: for the first time we are seeing systematic integration within cities and technologies helping to distribute energy generation and management, resulting in lower-level governance.

WASHINGTON — The interim accord struck with Iran on Sunday interrupts the country's nuclear progress for the first time in nearly a decade, but requires Iran to make only a modest down payment on the central problem.

Birch made the engravings "as a memorial of [Philadelphia's] progress for the first century". The deluxe edition included hand-colored plates and sold for the enormous sum of $35.

Evaluations are complete for the first planting and in progress for the second planting (Photo 1, above).

According to the department, 201 elementary and middle schools and 46 high schools did not meet the required yearly progress for the second consecutive year and were termed in need of improvement, compared with 121 elementary and middle schools and 38 high schools that received the designation in 2006.

At Oxford her academic progress was, for the first time, less than meteoric.

It's a work in progress, but for the first time I'm starting to feel cautiously optimistic about this".

There has been progress, and for the first time last year, the college made more than half (53%) of its offers to state-school pupils.