The phrase 'exceeded the standard' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe any circumstance where something has surpassed a benchmark or expectation. For example: "The student's test score exceeded the standard, earning them an A+."
Today's precautions exceeded the standard measures, however.
Our criteria was to show works that exceeded the standard of utility".
Some states, especially those in the north-east, have already exceeded the standard.
That exceeded the standard in other states to simply match the average state spending per student.
Action was taken yesterday because the level of resistance has exceeded the standard of 5percentt set by the centers and the World Health Organization.
From the spoonful of duck and lamb curry that came as a chef's appetizer to the maple soufflé, each course exceeded the standard set by the previous one.
The arsenic biosand filter, in which nails sit in a diffuser basin above the sand, performed better but effluent arsenic almost always exceeded the standard.
In the absence of wind when the stack effect acted only, the air changes per hour slightly exceeded the standard minimum value.
The percentage of Sayville fourth graders meeting the state standard in mathematics was 41percentt and another 49percentt exceeded the standard, compared with statewide averages of 43percentt meeting and 27percentt exceeding the standardd.
Los Angeles has by far the biggest problem - it exceeded the standard an average of 137.5 days a year between 1987 and 1989, compared with 44.2 days for Bakersfield, Calif., the second-highest area; 24.3 days for Fresno, Calif., the third-highest, and 17.4 days for the New York metropolitan area, the fourth-highest.
