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adv. (context idiomatic English) considerably; significantly. n. (context idiomatic English) Dramatic improvements.
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Leaps and Bounds was a chain of indoor play-places that was started by McDonald's in 1991. It was merged with competitor Discovery Zone in 1995.
Leaps and Bounds had a design of two tubes with a block and circle in the middle on the front of the building to resemble the tube maze the play-place had featured. "Play with Purpose" was their slogan.
Popular specialty entertainment companies like NY Party Works rent the product out (primarily for private events) to other well known companies like Forbes, The New York Times, Verizon, and many others.
"Leaps and Bounds" / "Bradman" is a double A-sided single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls released in January 1987. "Leaps and Bounds" is from their debut double album, Gossip (1986). "Bradman" did not appear on a studio album until the international version of Under the Sun (1988). The single reached top 100 in the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. Due to possible racist connotations the band changed its name, for international releases, to Paul Kelly and the Messengers. In 1997, Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, at the ceremony Crowded House paid tribute to Kelly and performed "Leaps and Bounds". In October 2003, Xanthe Littlemore covered "Leaps and Bounds" for the tribute album, Stories of Me – A Songwriter's Tribute to Paul Kelly. In 2005, rock music writer, Toby Creswell described two of Kelly's songs: "Leaps and Bounds" and " From Little Things Big Things Grow" in his book, 1001 Songs. For the former, Creswell observed "The grand themes of [his] work are all there – Melbourne, football, transcendence and memory... [he] is a detail man – the temperature, the location , foliage". On 26 March 2006 Kelly performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Melbourne, singing "Leaps and Bounds" and "Rally Around the Drum". In February 2009 Patience Hodgson (of The Grates), Glenn Richards and Kelly performed "Leaps and Bounds" at the Myer Music Bowl for SBS-TV's concert RocKwiz Salutes the Bowl. On 29 September 2012 Kelly performed " How to Make Gravy" and "Leaps and Bounds" at the 2012 AFL Grand Final although most of the performance was not broadcast on Seven Network's pre-game segment.
Usage examples of "leaps and bounds".
In leaps and bounds, propelled by powerful thigh and tail muscles, the Ssi-ruuk soon overwhelmed the Bakuran troops.
It was mainly a problem with her thoughts, which showed a tendency now to move along in odd little leaps and bounds, with short stops in between, as if something were trying to freeze them up.
If people could rid themselves of the wickedness they currently had to repress, if science (which was advancing in leaps and bounds and causing much dismay) could alleviate the burden created by adhering to the old-maidish Victorian definition of morality, the continued march of civilization might be assured.
Then he struck gold, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds.
His life-and-death situation helped him learn: his ability to interpret what he was hearing was growing by leaps and bounds.
I thought again of the hang ups I had been sitting, my paranoia growing by leaps and bounds.
In the two decades since she'd silenced her own prophecies with pills, the technology for predicting that moment had advanced by leaps and bounds.
His leaps and bounds were little short of those which my earthly muscles had produced to create such awe and respect on the part of the green Martians into whose hands I had fallen on that long-gone day that had seen my first advent upon Mars.
Once again I witnessed their unbelievable leaps and bounds, the fact that they could even coast afloat, their fine fur fluffed, the air they swallowed holding them aloft.