Despite only 68 overs being possible as the weather again intervened, Somerset made rapid progress to close on 312-3.

BBC: Trescothick leads Somerset charge

Shares in power firm Drax have risen after the company said it had made rapid progress in its plans to switch to using biomass fuel.

BBC: Drax shares boosted by biomass news

He has made rapid progress since captaining the England Academy on their successful tour to Australia two years ago and has appeared in 10 of Saints' 12 League games so far this year.

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By 2020, technology will have made such rapid progress, that speech recognition by a computer will exceed that of a human.

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The key to the whole endeavour is the rapid progress made over the past couple of years in genotyping equipment.

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Rather, the paper suggests that the rapid progress made over the past 250 years could well turn out to be a unique episode in human history.

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Garnering celebrity attention, tremendous resources were mobilized very quickly and rapid progress was made.

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Marburger says he thinks the relationship between policy makers and scientists is made more difficult by the rapid pace of scientific progress.

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While 3-D printing has existed for about 30 years, the rapid progress in technology in recent years, as well as more affordable price tags, has made the technology more attractive to industries and consumers.

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