great leap

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandleap

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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leap
noun[C]
uk
/liːp/us
/liːp/
a big change, increase, ...
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(Definition ofgreatandleapfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgreat leap

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It is nogreatleapto view consciousness in the same light, as an emergent process whose causal constituents include emotion as well as cognition.
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This change of subject did not represent agreatleapfor him.
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It does not require agreatleapof the imagination to see how such similarities might be detected and drawn upon in acquisition.
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If the 'greatleapforward' had achieved its goals, then the explanatory sketch would have been falsified and in deep trouble.
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Thisgreatleapin the amounts it was possible to raise on the security of land mirror increases in the capital value of land.
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The area of tick saliva research has taken agreatleapforward in recent years.
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Important changes occurring rapidly have been a feature of cultural evolution ever since the 'greatleapforward' some 50,000 years ago.
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However, it requires agreatleapof faith to jump from these results to the conclusion that economic growth on its own will foster environmental improvement automatically.
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And it is agreatleapforward, in my view, to look through (and within) caricature to reimagine her performances and discursive constructions in narrative space and time.
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But the 'greatleapforward' was a disaster and resulted in mass starvation.
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In the late 1950s, with the so-called 'greatleapforward', they forced comparatively small collectives into larger communes, thereby further diluting property rights and attenuating incentives to work.
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We, with our costs, with our social structure, with our diversities - if we do not take agreatleapforward we will be lost.
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This really is agreatleapforward in terms of clarity and democratisation.
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Our proposal is not thegreatleapin the dark that has been portrayed.
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I believe that that break with tradition represents agreatleapto freedom for the goat, but not much of a step forward for mankind.
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It always struck me as being agreatleapinto the dark on insufficient scientific grounds.
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It has nogreatleapforward to report.
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You are taking agreatleapin the dark.
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I thought that there was to be agreatleapforward in providing nursery education for children aged from three to five.
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I do not think anygreatleapof imagination is needed to decide the answer to that.
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