Flatlining in the polls, and deserted by key supporters, McCain looked like he'd been overtaken for good by his younger rivals.
It was overtaken for the first time last year by Black Friday as shoppers snapped up bargains and then waited until nearer Christmas to make further purchases.
IPC's Loaded, which recently relaunched and cut its cover price, is expected to leapfrog Maxim into second place, having been overtaken for the first time in the second half of last year.
However, the Sun has been overtaken for the first time as the biggest selling Saturday paper, with the Daily Mail's edition on that day averaging 2,474,439 in November.
Depending on the hazard control hierarchy, control measures are overtaken for the hazards that are placed at first of intra-department rankings.
It's still a popular distance for fun-runs and demonstration events, but it's long been overtaken for serious athletes by the 1500 metres (the "metric mile" as the British used, rather patronisingly, to call it).
The move comes as traditional PC companies struggle to make money in a market that is rapidly shrinking, with the latest forecasts showing that PC sales will be overtaken by tablets for the first time in the final quarter of this year.
Like many others of his era, Lankester believed that there was a risk that the English might be "overtaken in the struggle for existence," an idea he propounded at length in his 1880 Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism.
"It is very naive for people out there to think that we are just going to sit around and wait for us to be overtaken," he says.
Her love for therapy has, at least for now, been overtaken by her love for words.
