Sentence examples for this is certainly progress from inspiring English sources

This is certainly progress.

Measured against the way things once were, this is certainly progress.

This is certainly progress from where the industry was a few years ago.

While this is certainly progress from the vantage point of Schwartz's 1989 Harvard Business Review article, the majority of these companies recruit 50% women at the entry levels.

That is certainly progress.

The frustration is that it has taken so long with inflation having already fallen so low, but it is certainly progress".

While that's certainly progress, it's nothing to get excited about.

Now that's certainly progress, but it's not good enough.

But Xbox at E3 2015 can only claim a hollow victory they didn't suck, and while that's certainly progress, it's more a relatively safe scurry to second base than an extravagant home run.

There's certainly progress to point to.

It may not be where you want to end up but it's certainly progress and I suspect many newspapers would be quite cheerful with figures like that".