But to pick up a player like Rickey, all of a sudden, you make a substantial jump.

Price was up to $3,195 - a pretty substantial jump from the 1942 price of $2,435 considering it was practically the same vehicle.

In the 1980s, the region experienced a renaissance highlighted with a substantial jump in quality wine production.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act also authorized a 77 percent increase in the agency's budget and a substantial jump in the size of its staff.

Instead of reading scores stagnating over all, the citywide average had actually risen five percentage points - a substantial jump, particularly for an urban school district.

The top five travel Web sites recorded substantial jumps in traffic over the year.

That was a substantial jump from 2000, when there were at least 10 deaths and 85 serious side effects among children linked to the drugs.

With even limited design ahead, the advent of assemblers will result almost immediately in substantial jumps in the quality of hardware.

Or it may be an even more substantial jump in the symbolically important discount rate of 3 percent, which the Fed has not changed since July 1992.

There were also substantial jumps in residential investment and in output of producers' durable equipment.