Sentence examples for a record surpassing from inspiring English sources

As a share of GDP, this will be a record, surpassing the 3.6% reached in 1987.

Futures trading this month is already a record, surpassing July, which was the next highest.

The amount is a record, surpassing $8.9 billion in February 2000.

Bautista's total of 7,454,753 was a record, surpassing the 6,069,688 votes received by Ken Griffey Jr. in 1994.

And the daily average attendance of 29,147 was also a record, surpassing the average of 28,749 in 1989, when the meeting was held over 24 days.

EBay, the Web auctioneer, touched a record, surpassing the level reached on March 24, 2000, during the height of the Internet bubble.

In 27 years as general manager of the Met, he presented 14 American operas (a record surpassed only by Julius Rudel, who produced 35 American operas in 22 years as general director of the New York City Opera).

Dorothea Lambert Chambers, née Dorothea Katharine Douglass (born September 13 , 1878 Ealing, Middlesex, England died January 7 , 1960 London) British tennis player who was the leading female competitor in the period prior to World War I. Chambers won the Wimbledon singles seven times (1903 04, 1906, 1910 11, 1913 14), a record surpassed only by Helen Wills Moody in the 1930s.

Plying his trade largely before the advent of an organised European Tour, O'Connor dominated the Irish golfing scene, won a number of lucrative, high-profile tournaments in Britain, and was a familiar face in the US as he played in 10 consecutive Ryder Cups for Great Britain and Ireland from 1955 to 1973 – a record surpassed only by Nick Faldo.

In fact, unemployment has exceeded 8% in every month of my term, except the first, and in 26 of the past 28 months it's been above 9%, a record surpassed only in the 1930s-1940s.

It also set a worldwide IMAX opening-weekend record with $23.2 million (a record surpassed by The Dark Knight Rises).