However, Scottish government statistics show health boards have been making progress in making the treatment available to more people.

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For three and a half years, we have been moving forward, we have been making good progress, and we are beginning to see that change that we all can believe in.

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Banks and building societies have been making swifter-than-predicted progress in repaying the emergency lending they had to take from the Bank of England and the Treasury in 2008 during the height of the banking crisis.

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From the beginning of our running, we have been able to focus on understanding the car and making good progress with our test program.

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Thanks to initiatives that began in the Bush Administraiton and have been accelerated under the Obama Administration, there are now several commercial space companies making extraordinary progress in the United States.

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But fusion aficionados also blame a lack of urgency for the slow progress, claiming that at least 15 years have been lost because of delays in decision-making and what they regard as inadequate funding.

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