Little progress is expected by the time the Congress goes on holiday later this month.

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The peace process, restarted by the Obama administration, is making little progress.

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Kids go in and grade-by-grade they progress until they graduate and become productive little worker bees in the American economy.

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Little Rock School District's progress toward being declared desegregated by the government has been slowed by the city's changing neighborhoods and disputes among local education and government leaders, experts say.

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With little to hold onto so deep into the holiday season, investors remain warmed by potential progress in the US budget deficit talks.

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Since the idea of African political unity was first pushed - by Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence in 1957 - there has been little progress.

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Global warming, dwindling water supplies and the eradication of poverty are among other topics to be tackled by the forum, which is often dismissed as a talking shop that achieves little in the way of concrete progress.

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We tried over the proceeding 5yrs to implement things on a localised basis and it was incredibly expensive and we made very little progress and we cannot have a National Health Service in which information is moved extremely inefficiently by paper.

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