enormous leap

collocation in English

meaningsofenormousandleap

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enormous
adjective
uk
/ɪˈnɔː.məs/us
/əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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leap
noun[C]
uk
/liːp/us
/liːp/
a big change, increase, ...
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(Definition ofenormousandleapfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We are not faced with food shortages that require us to take thatenormousleapof faith.
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Now we have an agreement which represents not so much a step as anenormousleaptowards that objective.
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In other words, the quality of life in the next 25 years could possibly take anenormousleapforward.
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Why should we take thisenormousleapin the dark?
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In company after company privatisation has resulted in anenormousleapin efficiency, performance, attitudes and involvement.
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There is anenormousleapforward in population in those countries.
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Meanwhile, our neighbours have witnessed anenormousleapin the standard of living of all their peoples.
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There was anenormousleapin house building and it was possible to buy a good three-bedroomed house for £880.
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The standard housing benefit scheme is difficult enough to understand, but we take anotherenormousleap into complexity when we consider the housing benefit supplement.
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Anenormousleapforward will come from internet access through digital television and through third-generation mobile.
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That must be anenormousleapforward.
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To reduce immediately the level from 10,000 for a ground to 500 for a stand is anenormousleapfor local authorities and fire authorities to cope with.
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But ideas of channels with fixed widths go back to the earliest days of charting, so perhaps applying some averaging is not anenormousleapin any case.
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We have reached that devastating figure in enormous leaps in recent months.
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Two enormous leaps occurred in the late 19th century, which together allowed the transition to modern surgery.
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The work requires exceptional virtuosic skills, with extremely fast overlapping octaves, fast scales with left accompaniments, enormous leaps, rapid octave chords, tremolos, double octaves and trills.
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