"leap in time" is correct and usable in written English.
It is generally used to suggest that something has advanced quickly or suddenly in the timeline, from one point to another. For example, "The company made a giant leap in time to launch the new product."
We might point to vignette, spirit or all kinds of staged photographs by late 19th-century photographers like Henry Peach Robinson and Julia Margaret Cameron, to offer a few names; endless contrived native portraits of indigenous people; or, to leap in time, Claude Cahun's rich, chameleonlike, dress-up self-portraits from the 1920's and 1930's.
With "Leap in Time," Leap Motion is used to navigate through a Facebook timeline via hand gestures that are intended to be as natural and intuitive as possible.
Tanning is one of those figures who, in leaving home for the city, also experienced a disorienting leap in time.
Shakespeare's play of regeneration is a fable that is split between two countries, with an abrupt leap in time.
Re "The Clocks That Shaped Einstein's Leap in Time" (June 24): The author writes that "with relativity, Einstein threw out the ether, along with absolute space and time".
After he held serve to force the tie breaker, the crowd rose in a standing ovation for both players, and Aynaoui jumped enthusiastically, twisting and leaping in time with the cheers.
A small handheld device that enables you to leap forward in time without even realising you're doing it.
Darwin's mostly thematic structure obliges him to leap around in time and space: from taking possession of Lagos to taking possession of Kowloon, from trading in South America to trading in Canada, from the English-speaking "Straits Chinese" in Malaya to the "Black English" Krio in Sierra Leone.
In this drama, place could be shifted with a license that would have astonished the most romantic of Elizabethan dramatists, the action could leap back in time in a way reminiscent of the flashback of the modern cinema, and events could be telescoped with the abandon of Expressionism.
All three films, which leap around in time by way of flashbacks, are anchored in a moment when the artist is in bad shape, is engaged in self-destructive and self-defeating behavior, and isn't performing in public or doing much at all with music.
