Headway

It took a while to make headway in modern medicine.

We've already made some headway.

We haven't made much headway.

He has made far more headway in the polls and campaign fundraising than most observers initially assumed he would.

Laughter is like a windscreen wiper: it can't stop the rain, but it lets you make headway.

We've made little headway.

We're making no headway whatsoever.

The whole of the main lines to be electrified were being equipped with four-aspect colour-light signals, automatically operated, where appropriate, and spaced to give a 5min headway throughout.

Sixty minutes divided by the headway gives a potential figure for 'trains per hour' - the simplest possible and most simplistic definition of capacity, termed line capacity.

So as not to impede navigation the two principal spans of the bridge were designed to provide a clear headway of 157 ft. above high water for a distance of 500 ft.; [...].