Sentence examples for figure surpassing from inspiring English sources

He was a strong leader, a visionary in his way, a figure surpassing all around him at home and on the continent.

Ruth emerged as the country's biggest figure, surpassing movie stars and the president.

That's an all-time high figure, surpassing the previous year best of 2004's £6.04bn – impressive indeed given how hard it can be for consumers in some towns to even get to a record store.

That's an all-time high figure, surpassing the previous year best of 2004's £6.04 billion ($8.8 billion)—impressive indeed given how hard it can be for consumers in some towns to even get to a record store.

With the latest deaths, the overall Palestinian death toll was closing in on 1,800, most of them said to be civilians — a figure surpassing the total combined deaths in Israel's two previous Gaza offensives over the last five years.

As in Europe, Asia and the Americas, Africa also incurs the huge cost of gender inequality – the UNDP estimates that gender inequality costs sub-Saharan African an average of $US95bn per year, a figure surpassing the annual GDPs of Uganda and Liberia combined.

The figure surpassed the 54,513 announced this season when the Yankees visited on April 24.

The record figure surpassed the £2.5bn invested over the whole of 2014.

The figure surpassed the previous record of $360 million set by "Call of Duty: Black Ops," set last year.

The latest figure surpasses the Guardian's previous US record of 11.8 million monthly unique visitors in October 2012, and is up from 10.9 million visitors in December 2012.

At the peak of boat arrivals to Australia, 20,587 arrived in a single year, 2013, a figure surpassed in Europe in some single weeks.