Вот некоторые примеры:
1. As you may recall from last year's rankings, our category included 160 colleges, with Dickinson ranked at #47. This three place "improvement" in an expanded category, ***while in the right direction***, is really not significant, as the assigned "point spread" is minimal.

2. Kuwait retains its poor reputation for trade mark piracy and has been criticised in the past by the International Intellectual Property Alliance for taking steps, ***which, while in the right direction***, are often slow and cumbersome. Still, Kuwait is signed up to TRIPS and thanks to the GCC, there is growing understanding of the importance of IP in Kuwait.

3. The Tokyo market access accords announced with great fanfare, ***while in the right direction***, only tackled the trade issues of interest to the developed countries and not of the developing countries and hence did not provide a basis for concluding the Uruguay Round by year-end, the Group of 77 and China declared Wednesday.

4. ***While always in the right direction***, the amount of change in the index can be distorted if unreliable data are used.

Заранее спасибо, Алексей.

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