Sentence examples for but not overtake from inspiring English sources
The pre-1970, 1990–1994, and 2000 2007 Caribbean-English cohorts will catch up with but not overtake the native-born African-Americans within 11 15 years of arriving in the USA.
Throughout the drug-war violence of the previous six year administration, Mexico City, the nation's capital known as the Federal District (DF), has remained relatively safe --not immunot but novertakenken by violence.
Declarer won with his queen and led the diamond ten, but could not overtake with dummy's jack, because East's eight covered dummy's six.
Toni Hodgkinson of New Zealand threatened with a fierce close at the tape, but could not overtake Clark Diggs and settled for second in 2 04.84.
Miller made a charge from Lane 7 and closed within a stride but could not overtake Jones, who perhaps was fatigued after dominating the 100 (10.88) and the long jump (23 - 1/2 last weekend.
The Angels closed to within three games at the end of the July, but could not overtake Oakland and finished five games out in third place.
But they could not overtake the Giants.
But they could not overtake Indiana.
"I could reel in Rosberg and Massa at the end of the race like they were stood still but I could not overtake.
That would still leave it as the world's second-largest economy, but it would not overtake America for at least another ten years.
