So, matters in the lab progressed well; but nothing goes with complete smoothness.

However, the matter had progressed to a point which would have made a refusal to go seem rather ungracious.

Would you like to know how matters have progressed?

"But I have been surprised at how slowly the matter has progressed."

If matters progressed as I thought they would, then the troops under Bonnie.

"I was about to go down myself to see how matters are progressing."

It was time to see how matters were progressing.

After all, matters had not yet progressed to cordiality.

Perhaps matters are not progressing quickly enough. It is my feeling that they never do when it comes to the issue of the environment.

The bystanders had been unable to tell how matters progressed.