Sentence examples for modest leaps from inspiring English sources

And so, when Joe was still a boy, his father focused on modest leaps, like bringing electricity to the small ranch house.

With a pause, a quaver or a modest upward leap, Ms. Thompson can make a line strike home: "Many a heart has proved untrue/Here's to me and here's to you," she sang in "Dear Old Man of Mine".

We head up a long rise to gain a better view and as we crest the modest hill we leap from the vans to watch the boiling cone split into six vortices, all spinning round the central vortex like witches dancing round a cauldron.

The question is no longer whether the individual makes a difference: quiet, modest, pliable Fan has leaped between worlds, and changed them.

The national dialogue leaped from modest proposal to outrageous hyperbole so fast it's clear something profound and quite apart from advance directive consultation was at work.

Concessions and parking had modest decreases; luxury suite rentals leaped 54 percent to $5.8 million; and advertising, the biggest source of revenue after club seats, was $47.9 million, up about $1 million.

My wager is that most of the improvements will be modest, and not represent a quantum leap in predictive capability".

It's no wonder that VCs raised a record $100 billion in fresh money in 2000, a huge leap over 1991′s modest $1.7 billion pot.

"Now we believe that it's probably more like a macaque," Ryan says, a primate that moves at a modest pace but is able to leap and clamber at times.

Admittedly, the leap from 2011 to 2012 was a modest 0.1% increase, which made the mean age of mothers 29.8.

He started with tiny but often endearing cars, so the first Accord was a giant leap despite dimensions that seem quite modest today.