'progress of reform' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about a gradual improvement in a system or process. For example, "The progress of reform we have seen in education has been remarkable."
The reformers were handicapped by a lack of money and skilled men, and they were opposed by traditionalists who argued that the reformers were destroying the empire's fundamental Islamic character and who often halted the progress of reform.
Without the country's brush with default and the conditions attached to the resulting bail-out, its leaders would have been unlikely to muster the necessary political will.The sluggish progress of reform elsewhere underlines this point.
Istvan Horvath, Hungarian ambassador to Bonn, appealed secretly to Chancellor Helmut Kohl to back attempts to destroy the old guard in Hungary by making West German economic aid dependent on the progress of reform.
The incident highlights the frustration many immigration campaigners feel at the slow progress of reform legislation, which passed the Senate in the summer with a bi-partisan majority of 68 to 32 but is currently stuck in the House of Representatives.
Blair wrote: It is an object lesson in the progress of reform: the change is proposed; it is denounced as a disaster; it proceeds with vast chipping away and opposition; it is unpopular; it comes about; within a short space of time, it is as if it had always been so.
After five years of school reform, 8,800 Chicago teachers offer their opinions on the progress of reform in their schools.
As part of a global competitiveness agenda, let's start by measuring progress of reforms in every country.
Despite the progress of reforms, "there remains a large gap between reform at the top and implementation on the ground," he added.
After the vote by the 24-member executive board of the bank, its chairman, James D. Wolfensohn, said future loans would depend on the progress of reforms in Iran.
But he still works full time, tracking the progress of reforms state by state, drafting op-eds for fellow-conservatives, planning conferences, rallying state legislators by phone, and firing off volleys on Twitter.
Numerical simulation of the model revealed that the progress of reforming reaction and the distribution of the product, H2, were influenced by the operating conditions, included that of temperature, ratio of H2O and CH4, as well as by the porosity of the supporting material.
