The prices of alcoholic drinks, tobacco and petrol have all far outstripped inflation thanks largely to higher excise duties.In addition to these trends, there are a couple of curiosities.
Boosted by its comparatively rapid population growth (which was sustained by a tide of international migration), the U.S. growth rate of real GDP between 1870 and 1913 outstripped all other industrializing countries.
Western Australia's outstripped them all with growth of 5.5%.
If we compare various education expenses with other standard family expenses such as health costs, housing prices, rent and childcare, school fees rises have over the past decade generally outstripped them all.
The Pirates so outstripped expectations that all 15 candidates on their list won seats — seats are doled out based in part on votes for a party rather than for an individual.
Polling bears this latter point out: in the aforementioned ComRes poll, the share of those aged 18-34 who thought a half or more of people on benefits were "scroungers" outstripped that of all other age groups by nearly 10 percentage points.
Across all ages, homes with VOD outstripped overall households in changing services.
But the ability of computers, and hence of video games, films and TV shows, to model and project those worlds onto our screens in all their splendour, has long since outstripped books.
Each year from 1995 to 1998, the S.& P. 500 outstripped returns at American hedge funds over all.
One of my most memorable trips to the zoo as a primary-school parent involved a long conversation with a seven-year-old in my daughter's class who insisted on telling me, in absorbing detail, how her own Sats results had matched, even possibly outstripped, my own child's, all in a voice that spookily echoed that of her pushy mother.
