1.   They can cash in on good ideas from staff and benefit from many small improvements and occasional large leaps forward.

2.   Because physical evidence in sexual-abuse cases can be unreliable, taking either side requires equally large leaps of imagination.

3.   A large leap toward winter occurs in November.

4.   But skeptics said such statements required a large leap of faith.

5.   It took a large leap forward with the purchase of equity brokerage Aros Securities last May from Swiss-based Asea Brown Boveri.

6.   NFL officials expect fewer teams to take large leaps of faith with troubled players, as has happened regularly in the past.

7.   Previously, military officials have admitted that a few MNLF members had defected, but there has been no confirmation of such a large leap to the rebel camp.