big leap

collocation in English

meaningsofbigandleap

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

Examplesofbig leap

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A rule assigning extrametricality only in clash is therefore abigleapin expressive power, and this ought to encourage scepticism.
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As we go into the single market, there will be abigleaptowards economic integration.
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That was abigleapin the dark.
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It makes abigleapforward with every extension of public ownership.
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I hope that we shall get thebigleapin exports upon which everything depends.
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That is better than taking abigleapin the dark now.
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It is abigleapforward.
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Recycling has taken abigleapforward, and the industry and local authorities are to be congratulated on that.
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This is thebigleap: we are to have an extra six lanes.
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Five years ago, many of us who were enthusiastic about the mutual movement felt that there was an opportunity for abigleapforward.
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This is abigleapto take in that direction.
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Abigleapforward is going on in this industry.
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That is abigleapforward.
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We believe that the time has come for reappraisal of the whole subject of home ownership with a view to abigleapforward in this vitally important social matter.
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Thisbigleapforward came at a price.
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That was a big risk for us, abigleapto identify ourselves in something that we knew was going to be widely distributed.
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Onebigleapin this process is recognition of the benefits that proactive law brings into contracting.
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This was to be thebigleapinto theatre proper....
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The collections did not show abigleapand the movie just managed a fair business over its first weekend.
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