The phrase "actually in excess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is truly or genuinely more than what is necessary or required.
Example: "The budget for this project is actually in excess of what we initially estimated."
Alternatives: "truly more than" or "genuinely beyond".
"Much, much more needs to be done, considering that the deficit is actually in excess of £150bn," it said.
If you're designing a robot for health care, for instance, the autonomy it needs is actually in excess of what you would need for a disaster response robot".
Update: We just got off the phone with IVP partner Todd Chaffee who says this round was actually in excess of $35 million.
Therefore, now that the returns are coming in, we find that quite a few trust stocks were selling at bargain-counter prices with the management standing idly by, realizing that the backlog of securities and other assets were actually in excess of what the public was selling them for.
Besides, injecting 3 to 4 times more substrate into joint or muscle did neither modify the level of luminescence nor the decrease profile, confirming that the substrate was actually in excess and thus was not a limiting factor in the targeted organ (data not shown).
"( 1-overline{P} ) measures the degree of agreement attainable over and above what would be predicted by chance" (Fleiss 1971), ( overline{P}-{overline{P}}_e ) measures "the degree of agreement actually attained in excess of chance" (Fleiss 1971), and the whole equation is a "normalized measure of overall agreement, corrected for the amount expected by chance" (Fleiss 1971).
But the two meals actually cost $186.06, in excess of the $150 annual limit the state allowed lobbyists to spend on lawmakers in 1997, Ms. Bergeron said.
"If we could get as much as half or more of the total flow, if we could actually see this recovering, say, in excess of 2,000 barrels a day," Mr. Suttles said, "we would all be extraordinarily pleased".
The economy was actually much stronger, growing well in excess of that reported 3.1% in real terms.
Baking soda in excess can actually dry out your skin.
As well as the obvious unfairness of a losing defendant having to pay costs in excess of those actually incurred on the case, the system has perverse effects.
